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“- Ah yes, those comets, they always predict great misfortunes. It doesn't surprise me at all that poor Madame Galuchet suddenly died last night,” plate 573 from Actualités
Honoré Victorin Daumier
- Date
- October 30, 1858
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Daumier was frustrated throughout the 1850s by the censorship of Emperor Louis Napoleon, who took power in a swift coup d’état in 1851, forcing Daumier to turn to social rather than political topics for the second time in his career. An unusual event such as a comet’s arrival was likely a welcome subject. Daumier designed ten comet prints, then rapidly produced another ten when Parisians responded enthusiastically. Le Charivari , the comedic newspaper that published Daumier’s work, continued to print this second set after June 13 had come and gone, including this scene of women gossiping as a comet streaks behind them.
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