1838
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Recipe to Cure Colic is a 1838 by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
Daumier shows a stout doctor holding a giant spoon over a screaming baby. His serious face and the baby’s wild cry make it clear: this doctor’s cure isn’t working. A tiny label names the recipe “for colic.” Daumier made this as a print for a Paris newspaper, mocking bad medicine. He drew doctors as fools more than once—this was his job. Look up Honoré Daumier to see more of his sharp, funny takes on France’s 1800s.
This print was published in Le Charivari (January 14, 1838) as plate 72 from the series Caricaturana.
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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