Our Exhibitions – Slide Shows

Reading

With the change of the season comes the time to sit by the fire and read a good book or to enjoy newspaper articles. Look through the slide show about reading in Daumier’s time.

SLIDE SHOW

For more information on these prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on READING / BOOKS / BOOK DEALERS / NEWSPAPER / JOURNALISM / PRESS LAWS etc. when searching by themes.

Boats, Ships, Barges

Right or wrong – I am the captain!

It’s not always easy to ride a boat, ship or nutshell. But in Daumier’s eyes most captains are trying to make the best of a situation. Enjoy the exhibition and navigate the torrential waters of this boat-tour.

SLIDE SHOW   |   VIDEO

For more information on these prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on BOATS (ROWING, SAILING) / MARINE / NAVIGATION / SAILORS / SEA / SEINE / TRAVELS / SUMMERTIME etc. when searching by themes.

Our beloved Animals

Most of us love animals, but fear seems always to be part of this love. Have a look at some of the awkward situations created by Daumier.

SLIDE SHOW

For more information on these prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on ANIMALS / Dogs / Cats / Birds / Insects / Zoo etc. when searching by themes.

Sports – not always fun

Sport is fun – apparently not always. Have a look at Daumier’s approach to Sports and physical exercise and feel the pain of some unlucky sportsmen…

SLIDE SHOW   |   VIDEO

For more information on each of the prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on SPORTS / Swimming / Horseback Riding / Fencing / Boxing / Mishaps / Accidents etc. when searching by themes.

Everybody loves Music

MUSIC! We all love it, and musicians are all experts. All?? Looking at this slide show you can almost hear the sounds – the nice ones as well as the cacophonies. With Daumier, music has many aspects and we see scenes that we all know. Enjoy the exhibition while listening to your favorite CD in the background…

SLIDE SHOW

For more information on each of the prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on MUSIC / Concert / Opera / Musical Instruments / Spectators, Theater etc. when searching by themes.

Spring – Love is in the Air

Enjoy the spring with Daumier!

SLIDE SHOW   |   VIDEO

For more information on each of the prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on LOVE / Flowers / Plants / Spring / Nature etc. when searching by themes.

Carnival – Masks – Costumes

As we all know, carnival is the crazy time of the year. Have a look how Daumier experienced it in the 1860’s from a political as well as entertaining viewpoint – and as usual certain similarities to existing persons are purely coincidental.

Enjoy the carnival season with Daumier!

SLIDE SHOW

For more information on each of the prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on CARNIVAL / Costumes / Theater / Festivities, Parties etc. when searching by themes.

Hunting Accidents

Whether it was a famous politician or an ordinary citizen – hunting accidents always happened, also in Daumier’s time. See what happened in the 1850s when a hunter shot his companion (or the dog of his companion) and you’ll find out that Cheney’s mishap is nothing new!

This exhibition can only be seen for a limited time (Feb. 13 to 23, 2006)

SLIDE SHOW

The Opening of the Hunting Season

How could Daumier possibly resist depicting the fine human weaknesses which so easily become visible when the hunting season starts. Not having been a huntsman himself, he took a generous portion of artistic liberties: His hunters usually are “gentleman-hunters” from the city who are getting easily scared by an overly aggressive rabbit. A milk cow shows all the attributes of a vicious fighting bull, and the gun powder usually gets wet in the wrong moment. The hunter’s difficulties in getting up before sunrise is being shown here as well as his missed hunting talent, resulting in having to purchase a hare from the local farmer.

We hope you will enjoy the new exhibition!

SLIDE SHOW

For more information on each of the prints and translation of the texts have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on HUNTING / Hunting Horn / Animals / Rabbits etc. when searching by themes.

(January 1, 2006)

December – A Month of Parties

December, the festive season – as seen by Daumier. When looking at our December exhibition you will find out how little difference there is between celebrating then and now. The Parisians enjoyed endless parties, ate too much, danced too long, drank too much. Sounds like December nowadays. Partying took place on all levels of society: in the family, in the army, by the river-boat captains and, of course at the “Society of Moderation” where the 87th toast was brought out simply to celebrate the existence of this organisation.

You will again have the opportunity to appreciate Daumier’s caricatures of his fellow Frenchmen, sometimes tender, at other times to the point… but not being an enemy of a few glasses of wine himself, he was by no means criticizing celebrations and parties.

Best wishes for the festive Season and Happy New Year! Enjoy the slide show!

SLIDE SHOW

For more information on each of the prints and translation of the texts have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on FESTIVITIES & PARTIES / Fireworks / Drinking / Eating / Country Fair etc. when searching by themes.

(December 1, 2005)

Daumier and the Theater

Join us at the theater and see how Daumier, who was an ardent admirer of the performing arts, saw the “theater folks”. Lean back in your seat when the lights go out and watch the slide show: the poor actor entering the theater through the stage entrance on a rainy evening, munching his sparse evening meal consisting of some French fries and thinking about his upcoming role as a great seducer and powerful prince. We also see the great Greek King Agamemnon enjoying a game of poker with Clytemnestra during a short intermission, before she will kill him in his bath tub just minutes later. El Cid and Rodrigue (the faint-hearted one) have probably never before been shown in such a “ridiculous” manner. No one can escape Daumier’s ironic but never offensive drawing pen.

Enjoy your visit to the theater with Daumier!

SLIDE SHOW

For more information on each of the prints and translation of the texts have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints in the DAUMIER REGISTER on THEATER / Actors / Spectators / Opera / Poetry etc. when searching by themes.

(November 1, 2005)

The Wine Season

October is the month of wine harvest. How could Daumier possibly resist drawing his delightful caricatures about wine drinking and wine harvest. He introduces us to the hard working wine farmer sweating in the vineyard and to the city dweller who never in his life imagined the back braking work which was needed to produce his cherished Bordeaux. But he also shows us some shady wine merchants “improving” the quality of the wine by adding sugar or “stretching” it by thinning it down with water from the nearby river.

Sit back with a glass of wine and enjoy the exhibition.

SLIDE SHOW

For more information on each of the prints and translation of the texts have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on WINE / Wine harvest / Wine commerce / Drinking / Restaurants etc. when searching by themes.

(October 1, 2005)

Daumier’s Lawyers

Enjoy a walk through our Daumier Museum. Our present exhibition shows Daumier’s lawyers from “Les Gens de Justice” as well as from many other series. Many of them are well known caricatures, others may be unknown to you. We are showing here on purpose pictures of a print quality which can be found on the market and with which every collector is familiar. It was not our intention to present a “coffee table book”. Sit back and smile at the various aspects captured so masterfully by Honoré Daumier.

EXHIBITION  |  VIDEO

La Rentrée – Back to School

Once again the nightmare for many hopeful and struggling students is starting: the month of September – synonymous for the beginning of the much dreaded school term. Have a look at our new exhibition and find out how Daumier suffered with the students, not forgetting that our little brats occasionally succeed to be quite vicious when defending their position against teachers or parents. The other side of the coin shows a proud father thriving in the joys that his offspring had won a cherished prize for scholastic excellence such as cleanliness or staying awake during math-lessons. We also feel deeply with the drawing instructor and his fruitless endeavour to make a Leonardo out of a an utterly untalented child.

We hope you will enjoy the new exhibition.

SLIDE SHOW

For more information on each of the prints and translation of the texts have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on SCHOOL / Schoolchildren / Teachers / Professors / Sports etc. when searching by themes.

(September 1, 2005)

Summertime!

Summertime is vacation time… especially in France. Nowadays like 150 years ago, Parisians, in a concerted effort of getting out of town, will rush to the seaside or to the public baths. At these resorts they eventually and quite by chance will meet again the same people they usually encounter in the city. The difference however is the relaxation, fresh air and clean water enjoyed by all of these happy vacationers in a truly collective summer experience of rare intimacy.

Have a look at our Great Summer Exhibition of Daumier lithographs, which as always, should not be taken too serious! For those of you who remained behind in the big cities, do not despair: enjoy the solitude and calm of a hot but empty town!

SLIDE SHOW  |  VIDEO

For more information on each of the prints and translation of the texts have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on SUMMERTIME / Summer / Swimming / Sports etc. when searching by themes.

(August 13, 2005)

Unpublished Daumier Prints

Isn’t it amazing that with the help of collectors and museum curators one occasionally is fortunate enough to find prints unknown to most Daumier amateurs? For the first time we are pleased to enclose in this special advance edition to the upcoming DAUMIER REGISTER, a list of lithographs which have either not been published or not photographed by Delteil and/or in other work catalogues. Since some of them were already known to Provost and Hazard, we are adding together with the Daumier Register Number the respective Hazard or Provost numbers, where available. Provost used “ bis” additions in order to place the prints in a time-relation to Delteil’s numbers.

Many of these prints we were able to photograph, but for a number of them, photographs are unfortunately not yet available. We invite you to scrutinize your own collections and possibly supply missing photography. At the end of the list you will find some photos not recorded in the Delteil catalogue.

All these findings are of course also documented in the DAUMIER REGISTER©, together with hundreds of corrections of dates and additions of states, previously not recorded by Hazard or by Delteil. Please click here to go directly to the DAUMIER REGISTER©, the new work catalogue on Daumier’s lithographic work on the internet.

EXHIBITION

Unpublished Daumier Prints

1. Daumier Register N° DR 3956
Hazard N° HD 3744
Un omnibus en temps de grippe. ACTUALITÉS N° 514, Charivari, 7. April 1858
2. Daumier Register N° DR 3957
Hazard Delteil N° HD 2908
Surveillant la Commission de Surveillance. ACTUALITÉS N° 209, Charivari, 23. Sept. 1851
3. Daumier Register N° DR 3958
Hazard Delteil N° HD 3543
C’est-y embêtant de brosser ces machines là…. c’est sur les bottes que le citoyen Antoine aurait du mettre un impôt de cent francs par an…. au bénéfice du domestique qui les cire!… ACTUALITÉS N° 186, Charivari, 22. Jan. 1849
4. Daumier Register N° DR3959
Hazard Delteil N° HD 3192
– Ah! ça mais on ne voit rien dans votre Lanterne magique? – Un peu de patience! le rideau n’est pas encore levé. ACTUALITÉS N° 87, Charivari, 25. May 1866
5. Daumier Register N° DR 3960
Hazard Delteil N° HD 3279
Croyez-moi! prenez mon bras. Après avoir été enchainée depuis si longtemps, vous ne seriez pas assez forte pour marcher seule. ACTUALITÉS N° 181, Charivari, 22. Sept. 1866
6. Daumier Register N° DR 3961Grande chaumière de 1841. Types d’après nature. 1841 ( ?) (no photo available)
In the meantime it has been cleared and it has been proven that this lithograph is not by Daumier but by Henri Druard (H.D.)
7. Daumier Register N° DR 3962La Veuve en Consultation. Les Gens de Justice N° 40, Oct. 1846. Only state: avant la lettre
(Photo: Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
8. Daumier Register N°DR 3963Le commerce est mort, les partis l’ont tué, que voulez-vous qu’il fît contre eux trois? Qu’il mourût… qu’il mourût…!
2. Oct. 1851. Only state : avant la lettre (Photo Passeron Collection)
9. Daumier Register N° DR 3964
Hazard Delteil N° HD 3154
EN IRLANDE. Comment!… encore un faux Stéphens, mais c’est le douzième depuis ce matin. ACTUALITÉS N° 49. Charivari, 17. March 1866. Three states
10. Daumier Register N° DR 3965
Hazard Delteil N° HD 3276
Les augures de la diplomatie n’osant ouvrir l’oiseau-Prussien pour savoir à quoi s’en tenir. ACTUALITÉS N° 179. Charivari, 3. Sept. 1867
11. Daumier Register N° DR 3966
Hazard Delteil N° HD 3362
Une garde-malade un peu naïve. ACTUALITÉS N° 283. Charivari, 14. Jan. 1868
12. Daumier Register N° DR 3967Suffrage universel – Suffrage restreint. ACTUALITÉS. August 1851 (Photo BNF, Paris)
13. Daumier Register N° DR 3968
Hazard Delteil N° HD 2784
UN VIEIL ENTÊTÉ. Monsieur le Greffier, pourriez vous avoir la bonté de m’apprendre quand on punira l’individu qui, place du Hâvre m’a mis l’œil dans l’état où vous voyez. Mais mossieu, il est inconcevable que vous persistiez à porter un bandeau pareil quand on vous a prouvé que personne n’avait reçu des coups de poing place du Hâvre… savez-vous que les ex-membres de la Société du Dix Décembre, auraient le droit de vous demander des dommages intérets pour le tort que vous pouvez porter à leur réputation!
ACTUALITÉS N° 37. Charivari, 19. Dec. 1850. Two states (Photo Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
14. Daumier Register N° DR 3969
Hazard Delteil N° HD 3060
Les giboulées de Mars, dans le Maroc. ACTUALITÉS N° 150. Charivari, 16. March 1860. Two states
15. Daumier Register N° DR 3970Cavalier montrant des pétards. Around 1864. Only state: avant la lettre (Photo Ingelheim Cat. 3956bis)
16. Daumier Register N° DR 3971Magicien. Around 1864. Only state : avant la lettre (Photo Ingelheim Cat. 3956ter)
17. Daumier Register N° DR 3972La Consultation, La Lecture du Jugement. Around 1848. Only state: avant la lettre
18. Daumier Register N° DR 3973Un député descendant de la tribune. LES REPRÉSENTANS REPRÉSENTÉS. Around 1849 – 1850. Only state: avant la lettre
19. Daumier Register N° DR 3974Dernier coup porté par les Chrstinos à l’armée Carliste. Registered 5.10.1839 with Archives Nationales in Paris.
5. Oct. 1839 (no photo available)
20. Daumier Register N° DR 3975Principautés, prenez garde à vous! La Prusse et l’Autriche à l’affût. ACTUALITÉS N° 72. August 1866. Two states
21. Daumier Register N° DR 3976Oui, madame, je suis tout dévoué à notre auguste reine, est…. quelqu’uns misérables centaines de mille francs. Je me fait tout de le retablir le trone. Quels sont vos moyens. Mes Moyens? J’en suis rempli de moyens! J’ai des amis, des journaux aussi toute la famille des Macaire se déclare pour lui. Jamais Prince n’aura élévé une plus innombrable armée!!… Registered 1.12.1848 with Archives Nationales in Paris. (no photo available)
22. Daumier Register N° DR 3977Eh ben! excusez, c’est le boulanger à présent qu’on voudrait mettre dans le pétrin! Nous oter le poids de tolérance, c’est intolérable il faut qu’ils nous croyent de bonne paté; jespère bien que leur ordonnance fera four. Registered 5. 12. 1840 with Archives Nationales in Paris. (no photo available)
23. Daumier Register N° DR 3978Hanovre et Schleswig. ACTUALITÉS. Around 1867 (no photo available)
24. Daumier Register N° DR 3979La Bombe. Around Feb 1871 (no photo available)
25. Daumier Register N° DR 3980Une Idole sur son piédestal. Around 1872. This gillotage was meant for publication in the Journal Amusant. In the Dreyfus collection the print had been erroneously attributed to LD 3952. It is an “avant la lettre” on papier mince. The text was added on a separate sheet of paper: „Une idole sur son piédestal“. (Photo Dreyfus catalogue)
26. Daumier Register N° DR 3981Dumant. Around 1848 (no photo available
27. Daumier Register N° DR 3982Cours de droit constitutionnel du professeur Rossé. Charivari, 26. Dec. 1834 (Photo Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA)
28. Daumier Register N° DR 3983Plaisir non partagé. Around 1844 (no photo available)
29. Daumier Register N° DR 3984Ingelheim Cat. N° 1188ter. Une première lecture LES BEAUX JOURS DE LA VIE. 14. Aug. 1844 (no photo available)
30. Daumier Register N° DR 3985M. Chaix d’Est Angel, l’avocat de l’accusé (Affaire la Roncière). Charivari, 15. July 1835, new attribution acc. to Ramus & Daumier Register (Photo Ramus Coll. USA)
31. Daumier Register N° DR 3986Don Quichotte et Sancho Pansa. 1953, printer Mourlot (Photo Passeron Collection)
32. Daumier Register N° DR 3987Le Chasseur Parisien. Etre bénin, inoffensif par excellence, Chasseur diligent, partant après l’aurore, tuant le temps et pas autre chose. Son fusil n’est pas moins philantrope, pas moins fidèle observateur du 4ème commandement. Cette espèce de chasse armée, equivalent à la paix armée. Registered 31.12.1840 with the Archive Nationale. CROQUIS PARISIENS, – par H. Daumier. 31. Dec. 1840 (no photo available)
33. Daumier Register N° DR 3988Un petit jeu de société avec cette légende: Mouton vole, chacon (?) vole, notaire vole! ah! un gage M. Théophile, un gage. Vous n’avez pas levé le doigt au notaire.. et pourtant aujourd’hui jusqu’au enfant de sept ans tous le monde sait qu’on notaire vole parfaitement. Registered 17.2.1842 with the Archives Nationales in Paris.
ACTUALITÉS. 17. Feb. 1842 In Album de l’An ( ?) (no photo available)
34. Daumier Register N° DR 3989Laissez moi mon cher, je vais retirer mes fonds de chez mon notaire. J’y vole d’en etre volé! ACTUALITÉS. Registered 17.2.1842 with the Archives Nationales in Paris (no photo available)
35. Daumier Register N° DR 3991Lassenaire Condamné. Around 18. Nov. 1835 (no photo available)
36. Daumier Register N° DR 3992Marrast. 1848/49 (no photo available)
37. Daumier Register N° DR 3994La République et la France abattue. ACTUALITÉS. 1871 ? (Photo C.G.Boerner, New York, NY)
38. Daumier Register N° DR 3995Deux hommes dans les ruines. 1856 (Photo Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
39. Daumier Register N° DR 3996Le Chat, la belette et le petit lapin (Fable.) – Newly attributed to Daumier by the Daumier Register. (Details in the Daumier Register). La Caricature Pl. 489 N°. 235. 7. May 1835
40. Daumier Register N° DR 3997Eloquence Fulchironne. Réponse péremptoire des deputés croupions, aux argumens, aux chiffres et généralement à toutes les bonnes raisons de toutes les oppositions possibles. Newly attributed to Daumier by the Daumier Register. (Details in the Daumier Register). La Caricature Pl. 491 nr. 236. 14. May, 1835
41. Daumier Register N° DR 3998Grand Enterrement du gros Constitutionnel décédé en son hôtel rue Monmartre, N° 121., enface de l’apothocaire et du M.d de Brioches. Cet infortuné vieillard tombé, après la révolution de Juillet, dans l’enfance et le philippisme fut attaqué de tous fléaux qui marquèrent ce temps de calamités publiques, la croix dite d’honneur, la pognée de main, la truffe ministérielle enfin, il mourut frappé de l’affreux désabonnement et s’éteignit dans les bras de ses actionnaires. St. Albin ( le Rousselin de 93) Chevassus (jadis attaché à la personne de M. de Stael), Jay (ancien censeur), Etienne (ancien censeur) que la terre te soit légère,ô naif Constitutionnel!….De profundis. Newly attributed to Daumier by the Daumier Register (small part of the print). Details to follow in the Daumier Register. Joint work with Grandville and Benjamin. La Caricature Pl.351/352 N° 167. 16. Jan. 1834
42. Daumier Register N° DR 3999Félix Pyat (en buste). Galerie de la Presse, de la Littérature et des Beaux-arts. Only state: avant la lettre. Around1840 (no photo available)
43. Daumier Register N° DR 4000Un représentant, chapeau à la main. LES REPRÉSENTANS REPRÉSENTÉS. Around 1850 (no photo available)
44. Daumier Register N° DR 4001Comte d’Argout. Photo from Gobin’s book „Daumier Sculpteur“, page nr 226 ex Marcel Lecomte Collection, Paris
Around 1833
45. Daumier Register N° DR 5399
(future woodcut edition of the Daumier-Register)
Le Rentier. Wood engraving. The original woodblock can be seen at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, first published in 1976. Photo : Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Saint-Denis (PROVOST Collection)
46. Daumier Register N° DR 4002Miniature Robert Macaire. Published in 1830-1840 by Pobuda as well as by Aubert. Photo Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
47. Daumier Register N° DR 0018Pauvres moutons ah! vous aurez beau faire.Toujours on vous tondra. Small size version of LD 18, published on December 15, 1832 in LE CHARIVARI (Photo Noack Collection)
48. Daumier Register N° DR 0023UN HÉROS DE JUILLET, Mai 1831. Small size version of LD 18, published on December 15, 1832 in LE CHARIVARI (Photo Noack Collection)
49. Daumier Register N° DR 0024Monseigneur s’ils persistent nous mettrons Paris en état de siege.. Small size version of LD 18, published on December 15, 1832 in LE CHARIVARI (Photo Noack Collection)
50. Daumier Register N° DR 0039Les Blanchisseurs. Le bleu s’en va mais ce diable de rouge tient comme du sang. Small size version of LD 18, published on December 15, 1832 in LE CHARIVARI (Photo Noack Collection)
PHOTOGRAPHS NOT RECORDED IN DELTEIL or other work catalogues:LD 2071 (Dreyfus catalogue)
LD 2074 (Dreyfus catalogue)
LD 2075 (Rosenwald collection, National Gallery Washington)