Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Philippine Pairie
Date1835
Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1808–1879)
Illustration CitationLa Caricature, January 1, 1835
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 10 3/8 × 13 5/16 in. (26.4 × 33.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-449
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe caption translates to read: "Marie Louise Charlotte Philippine Pairie, prostitute, accredited by the police." This complex political cartoon presented an attack on the conservative institution of the peerage and the peers' hereditary claims to seats in the Senate.
