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A Visit to the Salon. Obviously all the sculptors are a naughty bunch, plate 1 from Tout Ce Qu'on Voudra
Honoré-Victorin Daumier1847
- Attribution
- Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 26.8 × 21.5 cm (10 9/16 × 8 1/2 in.); Sheet: 33 × 25 cm (13 × 9 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison
CATALOGUE RECORD
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While the annual Salon was open to the public, this print suggests that perhaps not all Salon exhibits were appropriate for everyone. Here a father angrily escorts his two children away from a crowd of men looking at nude sculptures. The scandalized parent makes a lively counterpoint to the voyeuristic male viewers. Daumier’s ironic title implies that the artist agrees with his audience’s purported sense of modesty while teasingly drawing on their secretly lustful inclinations.
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