Honore Victorin Daumier
French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1808-1879
Pére de famille, inspirant de bonne heur à ses enfants, ...
1857
Lithograph on wove paper, second of two states
8 7/16 x 7 7/8 inches (21.431 x 20.003 centimeters)
Purchase: SOTA Print Fund, 1966.
1966.030.000

Though the famous French caricaturist Honoré Daumier is now also known as a painter and sculptor, he made his reputation in Paris beginning in the 1830s through his political and satirical lithographs. In this print, published in le Charivari in 1857, he showed a bourgeois family studying the sumptuous array of cheeses in a shop window. The caption translates: "Father of the family inspiring his children with an early respect and admiration for beautiful things..."