Honoré Daumier’s ‘Gargantua’ Censored
In this controversial lithograph, which was to be published in Charles Philipon’s newspaper La Caricature on December 16, 1831, Daumier depicted the corpulent monarch Louis-Philippe seated …
In this controversial lithograph, which was to be published in Charles Philipon’s newspaper La Caricature on December 16, 1831, Daumier depicted the corpulent monarch Louis-Philippe seated …
The popular image of Bastille Day, indeed of the French Revolution itself, is that the liberty-loving French folk in Paris spontaneously rose up against a …