Terms and conditions of use
Insurrection against husbands is proclaimed as being the first and holiest duty in life
(L'insurrection contre les maris est proclamée le plus saint des devoirs!...)
(1849)
plate no. 1 from the Les femmes socialistes (Socialist women) series
- Medium
- hand-coloured lithograph and gum arabic
- Measurements
- 25.5 × 20.6 cm (image) 29.0 × 20.6 cm (image and text) 36.1 × 27.8 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Paris, France
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Delteil 1918 ii/ii
- Edition
- 2nd of 2 states
- Printing/Publishing
- printed and published by Aubert & Cie, Paris
- Inscription
- printed in ink (in image) l.l.: h.D.
printed in ink l.l.: Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse.
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: 1291
printed in ink l.r.: Imp. Aubert & Cie (. under i) - Accession Number
- 1337-4
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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In mid nineteenth–century France, women began to take on more active roles in public life and political discourse. They participated in protests, strikes and political discussions, demanding greater rights, including suffrage. In his 1849 series Socialist Women, Honoré Daumier satirises the fight for women’s independence. In keeping with contemporary misogynistic attitudes, Daumier portrays politically active, left-leaning women as overly zealous, disconnected from practical concerns, and bordering on the ridiculous. In the first plate from the series, three women resemble witches gathered around a cauldron.
