Allen Memorial Art Museum present The Human Comedy: Chronicles of 19th-Century France an exhibition on view September 6 through December 22, 2013.
This exhibition of nineteenth-century French satirical prints from the AMAM’s permanent collection features works by the first generation of artistic lithographers. Daumier, Gavarni, and other French artists elevated the lithograph to an art form, exploring with humor and humanity every aspect of their era, from city life to country life, family life to professional life, childhood to old age. These original prints, published in the nascent mass press, were seen and circulated in homes, cafés, and city streets by the very people whose follies and frailties they depicted.