Echtpaar met krant op groot formaat, Honoré Daumier, 1845
Honoré Daumier, portraitHonoré DaumierFrench, 1808–1879

Echtpaar met krant op groot formaat

1845 · cartoon

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Where is “Echtpaar met krant op groot formaat” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

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Museum text in Dutch

De man en vrouw verbazen zich over het reusachtige formaat van de krant. Men heeft besloten om het gebruiksgemak te vergroten.

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Accession number
RP-P-OB-41.094

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In the life of Honoré Daumier

The whole life
  1. mid-1840s

    The Series "Les Gens de Justice"

    Around the mid-1840s Daumier began publishing his famous caricatures of lawyers, "Les Gens de Justice," a biting satire of judges, attorneys, and defendants that eventually comprised 39 subjects.

  2. 1846

    Move to the Île Saint-Louis; Meeting Baudelaire

    In 1846 the couple moved to 9 Quai d'Anjou on the Île Saint-Louis, where they lived until 1863. Writers and artists gathered at the nearby Hôtel de Lauzun; there Daumier met Baudelaire, who became his close friend and champion, and grew close to Corot, Courbet, Delacroix, Millet, and Rousseau.

  3. 2 February 1846

    Birth of His Son Honoré

    On 2 February 1846 the seamstress Alexandrine Dassy gave birth to Daumier's son, named Honoré.

  4. 16 April 1846

    Marriage to Alexandrine Dassy

    On 16 April 1846 Daumier married Alexandrine Dassy.

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