Picture "Don Quijote" (1868/70), framed
Picture "Don Quijote" (1868/70), framed
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 980 copies | reproduction on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size approx. 68.5 x 48.5 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Don Quijote" (1868/70), framed
Original: 1868/70, oil on canvas, 52.2 x 32.8 cm, Munich, Neue Pinakothek.
High-quality edition on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Limited edition of 980 copies. Framed in black and silver solid wood frame. Size approx. 68.5 x 48.5 cm (h/w). ars mundi Exclusive Edition.
About Honoré Daumier
1808-1879
Honoré Daumier was France's greatest caricaturist. With great humour, he portrayed political maladjustment and the narrow-minded middle class of Paris. He drew thousands of lithographs for the social-satirical daily newspaper "Le Charivari". He was political censored several times throughout his whole life. The publication of his caricatures of the "Bourgeois King" Louis-Philipe in 1830 even got him sentenced to six months in prison.
For a brief period only after the revolution of 1848 was he allowed to direct his satirical arrows at politics again. It was during this time that he created the immortal characters "Robert Macaire" and "Patapoil".
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