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Series Title: Ancient History

Apelles and Campaste

1842

Honoré Daumier

(French, 1808–1879)
publisher

Aubert

Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
lithograph
Support
Cream wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 32.4 x 26 cm (12 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.); Image: 24 x 19.9 cm (9 7/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1925.1010
Catalogue raisonné
Daumier Register / Delteil 960; Hazard-Delteil 1936
State
I/III before letters
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

This print is an early state (with no texts) of the print that was published in Le Charivari (November 30, 1842) as plate 36 from the series Ancient History.
A vertically oriented black ink lithograph depicts three caricatured figures in a studio with expressive line work. On the left, a bare-chested woman clutches a draped cloth. Centrally, a man in a plumed helmet and ornate armor gazes upward. To the right, a gaunt artist in glasses kneels on the floor, holding a palette and reaching toward the armor. In the background, a sketch and framed pictures are rendered in soft lithographic shading.

Apelles and Campaste

1842

Honoré Daumier, Aubert

(French, 1808–1879)
France, 19th century

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