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Taking the Oath of a New Member of the Philanthropic Society of the 10th of December. 
I swear to beat up all those Parisians who refuse to shout along with me: Long live the Emperor! 
(Prestation de serment d'un nouveau membre de la société philantropique du dix décembre. 
- Je jure d'assommer tous les Parisiens qui ne crieront pas avec moi: vive l'empereur!), number 1 from the series News (Actualités)

Taking the Oath of a New Member of the Philanthropic Society of the 10th of December. I swear to beat up all those Parisians who refuse to shout along with me: Long live the Emperor! (Prestation de serment d'un nouveau membre de la société philantropique du dix décembre. - Je jure d'assommer tous les Parisiens qui ne crieront pas avec moi: vive l'empereur!), number 1 from the series News (Actualités)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
Taking the Oath of a New Member of the Philanthropic Society of the 10th of December. I swear to beat up all those Parisians who refuse to shout along with me: Long live the Emperor! (Prestation de serment d'un nouveau membre de la société philantropique du dix décembre. - Je jure d'assommer tous les Parisiens qui ne crieront pas avec moi: vive l'empereur!), number 1 from the series News (Actualités)
Date
1850
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
13 1/4 x 10 in. Support
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1977.428
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

To 1977, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); December 1977, gifted to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Delteil, Loys. "Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XX-XXIX." Paris, 1906-1926. no. 2029

  • Nineteenth-Century Caricatures by Honoré Daumier: The Helen Wurdemann Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1/13/1996–2/11/1996

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