1842
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Apelles and Campaste is a 1842 by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a print of two people, Apelles and Campaste, in a simple scene. This print is interesting because it was published in a series called Ancient History. The series was meant to educate people about the past, but the artist added his own twist to the stories. Check out the work of artist: Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) for more like this.
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 .
Read the full account in the museum source.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870.
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