Sale 219 Lot 444

BOURGEOIS VISITORS PEERING INTO A TURCO TENT AT THE CAMP DE SAINT-MAUR, A DAUMIER SATIRE 1859 Honore Daumier (French, 1808-1879), lithograph, from the series "Au Camp de Saint-Maur," published by Aaron Martinet in the Parisian satirical journal "Le Charivari" on August 13, 1859, depicting a top-hatted gentleman and two crinoline-clad women stooping to peer under the flap of a tent at sleeping colonial Turco soldiers, while turbaned soldiers and a crowd of onlookers fill the background. The caption, in which a visitor remarks with surprise that the soldiers sleep like ordinary men, satirizes the exoticizing and patronizing fascination of Parisian sightseers with the colonial troops drawn from French Algeria and Africa. Monogrammed "hD" in the stone at lower left, inscribed "Mon Martinet, 172 r. Rivoli et 41 r. Vivienne" at lower left and "Lith. Destouches, Paris" at lower right, and titled and captioned "Visite aux tentes des Turcos. - Tiens!... ils dorment comme des hommes ordinaires..." Unframed. Sheet: 13.5 x 10.75 inches
$100-150