1839
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
I Have Three Sous! is a 1839 by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This lithograph shows a scowling man in a top hat holding three coins. His face is sharp, almost angry. The background is plain white. Daumier made this for a satirical newspaper. It mocked rich Parisians who flaunted their wealth. The three coins stood for France’s coin system. It reminds me of Daumier’s other political prints. See more at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print was published in Le Charivari (August 11, 1839) as plate 3 from the series Parisian Emotions.
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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