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Honoré Daumier — The Painter Who Had a Painting Refused.
Honoré Daumier

The Painter Who Had a Painting Refused.

1859

Artistic rejection becomes the subject of sympathetic satire, revealing Daumier's understanding of creative struggle from his own experience as a working artist.

Medium
lithograph

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Honoré Daumier, The Painter Who Had a Painting Refused., 1859

Artistic rejection becomes the subject of sympathetic satire, revealing Daumier's understanding of creative struggle from his own experience as a working artist.

Medium
lithograph
Year
1859
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, French, Artist Life, Social Commentary, Lithograph, Figurative, Humorous, Black and White, Satirical

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