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Le Passé–Le Présent–L'Avenir (Past, Present, Future), January 9, 1834
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
Lithograph; Sheet: 10 1/4 x 8 in. (26 x 20.3 cm); image: 8 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (21 x 19.7 cm)
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941 (41.16.1)

Daumier, who had served a prison term for a cartoon of 1831 depicting King Louis-Philippe as Rabelais' Gargantua, made this lithograph for the January 9, 1834, issue of La Caricature, a political weekly begun by Charles Philipon in 1830 and closed by the government in 1835.


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    Le Passé–Le Présent–L'Avenir (Past, Present, Future), January 9, 1834
    Honoré-Victorin Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
    Lithograph; Sheet: 10 1/4 x 8 in. (26 x 20.3 cm); image: 8 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (21 x 19.7 cm)
    Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941 (41.16.1)