1844
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Gentlemen.... here goes a 43rd toast.... to the Temperance Society is a 1844 by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a group of men raising their glasses in a toast. They're dressed in formal attire, looking serious. This painting is interesting because it shows a moment of irony, as the men are toasting the Temperance Society while holding drinks. The scene is set in a formal room with a long table. The men's facial expressions add to the humor. Check out the work of artist Honoré Daumier for similar commentary on 19th-century French society.
This print (with title and captions added) was published in Le Charivari (October 12, 1844) as plate 8 from the series The Philanthropists of the Day.
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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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