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Details
- Other Title
- Le passé - Le présent - L'avenir
- Alternative title
- Le passé. Le présent. L’Avenir
- Date
- 1834
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- i of 2
- Dimensions
- 33.0 x 26.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., black ink [inscribed on stone] "H.D.[reversed]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 476.1988
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Honoré Daumier
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About
Plate 349 published in 'La Caricature', no 166, 9 January 1834.
The enduring image of King Louis-Philippe as a pear was invented by Charles Philipon but it was Daumier who employed it most brilliantly in many of his prints. The image alluded to the Citizen King’s jowly face and corpulent figure, and to the double meaning of the French word ‘poire’, signifying both ‘pear’ and ‘imbecile’. Here the expressions on a three-faced pear change from a smile to a malevolent scowl.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 1990–27 Jan 1991
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009
European prints and drawings 1500-1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Aug 2014–02 Nov 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Nicholas Draffin, Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Sydney, 1991, p 6.
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Peter Raissis, Prints & drawings Europe 1500-1900, Sydney, 2014, col illus p 131.
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