Lithograph on tint, paper; dimensions: 28.00 x 20.90 cm; signed plate: HD. Below the composition, typographical description: Art. Anst. V. Reiffenstein & Rösch.
The Viennese lithography studio of Gottlieb Benjamin Reiffenstein (1822-1885) operated under the name "Reiffenstein & Rösch" from 1854 to 1871. Condition: insect marks in the form of black dots. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) - French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and sculptor, one of the outstanding representatives of 19th century realism became known as a virulent political caricaturist and an indispensable researcher of the mores of his era. His caricatures appeared both in the French press and in the form of lithographic albums.
This is not a portrait "out of sympathy," but a political caricature. Daumier, in general, was famous for mercilessly scoring the authorities (earlier, for example, Louis-Philippe, later also the people of the Second Empire).
