Sale 219 Lot 443

FRENCH SOLDIERS AND TURCOS TOASTING AT THE CAMP DE SAINT-MAUR, A DAUMIER SATIRE 1859 Honore Daumier (French, 1808-1879), lithograph on wove paper, plate no. 75 from the series "Au Camp de Saint-Maur," published by Aaron Martinet in the Parisian satirical journal "Le Charivari," depicting a boisterous French soldier in civilian dress raising his glass and arm in a toast with North African colonial troops in turbans, sashes, and baggy trousers, gathered around a canteen table in a military encampment. The caption renders the soldiers' broken French in a mock pidgin ("Bono... bono! France!") offering a glimpse of the colonial soldiers drawn from French Algeria and Africa into the imperial army during the Second Empire. Monogrammed "h.D." in the stone at lower left, numbered "75" at lower right, inscribed "Mon Martinet, 172 r. Rivoli et 41 r. Vivienne" at lower left and "Lith. Destouches, 28 r. Paradis Pre. Paris" at lower right, and captioned "Bono..., bono! France!!!..." Unframed. Image: 9 1/8 × 8 15/16 in. (23.2 × 22.7 cm)
$100-150