1837
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Robert-Macaire, lawyer is a 1837 by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a man, Robert-Macaire, who is a lawyer. He's dressed in old-fashioned clothes and looks pretty smug. The interesting thing about this work is that it was published in a series called Caricaturana, which was meant to poke fun at certain types of people. The man in the painting seems to be a target of satire. The artist is using humor to comment on society. You can learn more about this style by looking at the work of artist: Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879).
This print was published in Le Charivari (April 23, 1837) as plate 44 from the series Caricaturana.
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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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