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Sight, plate 39 from Types Parisiens
Honoré Victorin Daumier
- Date
- August 4, 1839
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper, with letterpress verso
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
A favorite of Daumier’s, this print is a play on traditional genre scenes, comically at odds with the sense it portrays. “Sight” is represented by a nighttime stroll alongside the River Seine, with Notre Dame emerging hazily from the darkness. The clearest object is the moon, represented by a curve of unmarked paper, in stark contrast with the heavily shaded image. The moon’s prominence only deepens the print’s irony: a crescent moon is traditionally a symbol that a husband has been cuckolded by his wife, suggesting that the man in the print cannot see what is right before his eyes.
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- Object type
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