Daumier, Honoré (Marseille 1808 – Valmondois 1879). Épouvantée de l’Héritage. The figure of France dressed in a black mourning gown in front of the landscape of death of the war of 1871. Lithograph. 1871. Monogrammed, otherwise as above. 24.3 x 18.1 cm.
Delteil 3838, III (of 3) with ills. of this state. – See the illustration in Escholier, Daumier – Peintre et Lithographe (1923), too. – Careful impression on better paper without the text on the back and the “Actualité” series title.
Worked in the great style of the last years, omitting all material and “accusing the wrong of the war in symbolic figures only …
“ More moving no master of the Middle Ages has seen the mourning Mother of God below the cross than Daumier the upright figure of the lamenting woman he called ‘Épouvantée de l’Héritage’ ”
(Glaser).
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Also see “To the War of 1870-71”, Daumier’s great work of reconciliation
„ … zugleich bedanke ich mich für alles, was Sie im alten Jahr für mich getan haben. Mit vielen Grüßen Ihr … “
(Herr W. W., 20. Dezember 2008)