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Title

The Phantom

1835

Artist

Honoré Daumier

France

26 Feb 1808 – 10 Feb 1879

  • Details

    Other Title
    The spectre
    Alternative title
    Le Fantôme
    Date
    1835
    Media category
    Print
    Materials used
    lithograph
    Edition
    ii of 3
    Dimensions
    27.2 x 22.3 cm image; 33.4 x 26.3 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Purchased 1990
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    360.1990
    Copyright

    Reproduction requests

    Artist information
    Honoré Daumier

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    Plate 488 published in 'La Caricature', no 235, 7 May 1835, the in 'Le Charivari', 14 May 1835.

    The political trial of the leaders of the Republican uprising in Lyon (April 1834) opened in Paris on 5 May 1835. Daumier conjures up the spectre of Napoleonic hero, Marshal Ney, condemned to death by the Bourbon royalists in 1815 as a symbol of the current government’s abuse of the law.

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