Eh! bien, monsieur Caboulot, vous ne venez pas?...., from Croquis de Chasse, published in Le Charivari, October 6, 1859
Original title: Eh! bien, monsieur Caboulot, vous ne venez pas?...., from Croquis de Chasse, published in Le Charivari, October 6, 1859
kurzbeschreibung
On October 6, 1859, Honoré Daumier's lithograph "Na, Monsieur Caboulot, kommen Sie nicht?" appeared in Le Charivari as part of the Croquis de Chasse series. Two men and a dog stand in a sparse landscape, and the print takes a comic aim at the hunt.
Description
A man in hunting dress leans against a tree in the foreground, looking upward with an expression that reads as pensive or uneasy. A dog sits beside him, also gazing up. Farther back, a second man with a hunting staff has his eyes raised as well. Black and white keeps the figures detailed against an open landscape of trees and a pale sky. The line of dialogue along the bottom edge sharpens the caricatural tone.
Context
Daumier drew the Croquis de Chasse for the satirical newspaper Le Charivari, where he regularly caricatured daily life and society. This lithograph came out on October 6, 1859, as part of that running series, which mocked the bourgeois pleasure of hunting. The sheet survives as the second state of two (Delteil) and bears witness to Daumier's critical eye on the life of his time.
Impact
Because the figures all look up together, an amusing tension arises: the viewer cannot quite resolve the comic situation. Precise drawing and exaggerated facial expression give the scene something lively, almost theatrical.
Technique
Lithography in black and white, worked with delicate lines and shading that bring out the textures of clothing and landscape. Daumier used the medium for quick, expressive sketches of the kind suited to printing in satirical journals.
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Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public Domain (CC0 1.0)