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for Chimère de l'imagination. Mon dieu, si j'allais faire un enfant à tête de Poire...ou bien un Lobi...un d'Arg...un Sou...un Dupi...ah! mon dieu!!!..un Kerat...!!!
Chimère de l'imagination. Mon dieu, si j'allais faire un enfant à tête de Poire...ou bien un Lobi...un d'Arg...un Sou...un Dupi...ah! mon dieu!!!..un Kerat...!!!
Creator
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Creator
Charles Ramelet
(French, 1805 - 1851)
Date1833
Mediumlithograph on paper
DimensionsImage: 24.5 × 19.8 cm (9 5/8 × 7 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 35.4 × 26.8 cm (13 15/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Mat: 54.6 × 40.6 cm (21 1/2 × 16 in.)
Sheet: 35.4 × 26.8 cm (13 15/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Mat: 54.6 × 40.6 cm (21 1/2 × 16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Trier-Fodor Foundation, 1981
Category
- Prints
Object number81/67
ProvenanceThis print was transferred to a lithographic stone by Charles Ramelet (1805-1851) and was designed by Daumier, while the latter was serving a prison sentence in 1832-1833. Daumier designed sixteen works that were transferred by Ramelet during his sentence (fifteen of these works fall under one series, L’imagination, and the other one is Chimère de l'imagination...). Little caricatures of Louis-Philippe and his ministers (i.e. Lobeau, d’Argout, Soult, Dupin, Keratry, etc.) surround a pregnant woman (likely a representation of France) who is having a nightmare. She holds a print from an edition of La Caricature newspaper in her right hand and cringes at the possibility of having a baby that might turn out to be like the King or one of the awful ministers who stand at her feet. This lithograph is a direct attack at Louis-Philippe and his governing body.
LocationNot currently on display
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