The Past, the Present, and the Future (Le passé – Le présent – L'Avenir), published in La Caricature, no. 166, Jan. 9, 1834

January 9, 1834
Not on view
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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  • Title: The Past, the Present, and the Future (Le passé – Le présent – L'Avenir), published in La Caricature, no. 166, Jan. 9, 1834
  • Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
  • Sitter: Louis Philippe, King of France (French, Paris 1773–1850 Claremont, Surrey)
  • Printer: Becquet
  • Publisher: Aubert et Cie
  • Date: January 9, 1834
  • Medium: Lithograph
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 5/8 in. (35 × 27 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941
  • Object Number: 41.16.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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