Honore Daumier / The Fugitives / about 1868

Honore Daumier
The Fugitives
about 1868 - 1870
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Creator Name: Daumier, Honoré-Victorin
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: painter
Creator Dates/Places: 1808 - 1879
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Honore Daumier
Title: The Fugitives
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1868
Creation End Date: 1870
Creation Date: about 1868 - 1870
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: H.15-1/4 x W.27 in. (sight)
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 54.16
Credit Line: The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context:

The bas-relief sculpture is one of Daumier's earliest expressions of the theme of exile, which he explored frequently between 1848 and 1870. Although possibly inspired by the Polish Revolution or the 1848 insurrection in France, the precise subject remains unknown. This bronze comes from an original edition of five produced in November 1893 by the Siot-Decauville firm.

Daumier's painting, The Fugitives, was his last and most dramatic rendering of the refugee theme and might refer to events surrounding the onset of the Franco-Prussian war, or to the insurrection of the commune in France in 1870. Daumier was less interested in depicting specific events than in responding to the depth of human suffering caused by these events.

AMICA ID: MIA_.54.16
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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