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Artist
- Name:
- Daumier, Honoré
- Dates:
- 1808-1879
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Humor
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
Periodical
- Title:
- Le Charivari
- Author(s):
- Collective work
- Published:
- Paris, 1849
Description
Three women forming a half-circle take a solemn oath over the top hat one of them is holding.
This illustration was published in Le Charivari on April 20, 1849. It is the first lithograph in a series of 10 titled Les femmes socialistes (another four might have been intended as part of the same series[1]). Second state of two.
The caption reads in the original French: L’insurrection contre les maris est proclamé le plus saint des devoirs !
- ^ Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre lithographié de Honoré Daumier. Nicolas-Auguste Hazard & Loys Delteil. Chez N.-A. Hazard: Orrouy, 1904, p. 390.
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, black & white, ceremony, female, periodical, ritual
