1854
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The ogre and his little Tom Thumb is a 1854 by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
Daumier shows a big, scowling ogre holding a tiny boy by the collar. The boy looks calm, almost bored. Light falls on the ogre’s face, leaving the rest in shadow. This was a print in a Paris newspaper. Daumier mocked politicians and bullies in these daily cartoons. The series, *News of the Day*, mixed jokes with sharp takes on power. See it for yourself at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print was published in Le Charivari (June 23, 1854) as plate 69 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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