GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This lithograph was part of the series As You Like It, which contained ninety-four works published in Le Charivari between March 28, 1847, and November 30, 1852. It was similar to the popular series The Good Bourgeois in that they both dealt with the numerous misfortunes that Parisian men and women encountered in daily life. This series focused particularly on the loneliness of bachelorhood, a lifestyle with which Daumier was perhaps quite familiar as he did not marry until age thirty-eight. The series was never politically charged but rather sentimental and humorous, featuring as its main character the fictitious and stingy Monsieur Coquelet, whose greed Daumier often emphasized to make him appear ridiculous.
Excerpt from
Martha MacLeod, DMA label copy, 2016.
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Created 1850
October 2016
Checked Piction
Plate 59, state 2
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Daumier, Honoré (French, 1808-1879)
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Place of origin: Paris (France): TGN: 7008038
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- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC~Read a biography of Daumier from the NGA.
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General Description
This lithograph was part of the series As You Like It, which contained ninety-four works published in Le Charivari between March 28, 1847, and November 30, 1852. It was similar to the popular series The Good Bourgeois in that they both dealt with the numerous misfortunes that Parisian men and women encountered in daily life. This series focused particularly on the loneliness of bachelorhood, a lifestyle with which Daumier was perhaps quite familiar as he did not marry until age thirty-eight. The series was never politically charged but rather sentimental and humorous, featuring as its main character the fictitious and stingy Monsieur Coquelet, whose greed Daumier often emphasized to make him appear ridiculous.
Excerpt from
Martha MacLeod, DMA label copy, 2016.
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Created 1850
October 2016
Checked Piction
Plate 59, state 2
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Daumier, Honoré (French, 1808-1879)
Cultures
Geography
Place of origin: Paris (France): TGN: 7008038
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Lithography on paper
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
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PROVENANCE
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