Word: daumiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest wearer of the green uniform of the Academie des Beaux Arts, one of the five subdivisions of the ancient Institut de France, is J. L. Forain, famous cartoonist of Le Figaro. He was a pupil of Honore Daumier, greatest of all users of the satiric brush of the political cartoonist. Daumier was a great artist from any point of view. Forain has never equalled him, but his position is very important, not only in journalism, but in " straight" etching and painting as well...
Eighteenth century work is illustrated by Watteau and Fragonard. The work of the Barbizon school may be studied in scenes of peasant life by Charles Jacque and Millet, and landscapes by Daubigny, Corot, and Rousseau. Etchings of Paris by Lalanne and Lepere are shown, Lithographs by Gavarni, Chariet, Raffet, Daumier, and Manet; landscape etchings by Pissarro, and a very rare lithograph of four figures by Ingres...
...Century wood cuts made from illustrations in printed books; XVth Century Florentine engravings; The Judgement of Paris, one of the early and very rare prints by Marcantonio; a beautiful impression of Mantegna's Seated Virgin; two large engravings by the North Italian, Mocetto; and prints by Ingres, Fragonard, Manet, Daumier and Delacroix...
...French prints covering the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. There are examples of engraving by Duvet; etchings by Callot, Claude Lorrain, Gaspar Poussin; engraved portraits of the seventeenth century by Mellan, Nanteuil, Edelinck, Masson, Morin, etchings by Watteau, Millet, Lalanne, Corot, Lepere; and lithographs by Daumier, Delacroix, Isabey, and Gavarni...
Forain, like Daumier, has always been interested in the courts of law, and many of the prints in the exhibition are scenes of the courts. There are also prints dealing with religious subjects--scenes from the Bible and scenes in the life of the pilgrims at Lourdes. Belonging to this latter group are "La Miraculee" and "La Communion des Malades", remarkable for their deep and intense feeling. One of the artist's fine compositions that appeared during the war is shown, "La Borne" (Verdun...