Danaids1.0062_Daumier

Danaids1.0062_Daumier

Metropolitan Museum of Art
OGCMA s.v. "Danaids"

Honoré Daumier, 1808-1879, "The Revival of the little Danaides" (Renouvelé des petites Danaides), 26 June 1866, "Actualités" (News of the Day), lithograph on newsprint; third state of four (Delteil 1906-30, 29: no. 3719); Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936, object no. 36.12.19.

Daumier's characteristic satiric wit depicts French laborers and military figures and statesmen pouring sacks of coins into a bottomless barrel that bears the lable the "Treaty of 1815: false balancing of European political power"

Political cartoon showing European figures pouring money into a barrel labeled "Treaties of 1815" that's draining into a pit

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.