1869
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Quartering Reinstated is a 1869 by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print shows a man in a suit pointing at a pile of chopped meat. The meat sits on a table like a body after an execution. A crowd watches—some look bored, others shocked. Daumier used this image to mock France’s harsh punishments. The print ran in a newspaper called *Le Charivari*, which often poked fun at politics. Check out Daumier’s other prints in the same series.
This print was published in Le Charivari (May 8, 1869) as plate 98 from the series News 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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