Terms and conditions of use
What is a woman in today's society? Nothing! What should she be? Everything, yes everything, everything... Ah. Bravo, bravo, this speech is even better than the last one Jeanne Derouin gave.
(........qu'est la femme aujourd'hui dans la société, rien! que doit-elle être? tout..... oui, tout, tout!... Ah! bravo, bravo, c'est encore plus beau que le dernier discours de Jeanne Derouin!.....)
(1849)
plate no. 6 from the Les femme socialistes (Socialist women) series
Medium
hand-coloured lithograph and gum arabic
Measurements
24.2 × 19.6 cm (image) 28.2 × 19.6 cm (image and text) 36.4 × 27.9 cm irreg. (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Jeanne Deroin was a prominent advocate for improved working conditions and greater civil and political rights for women. She was one of the founders of the socialist feminist newspaper La Voix des Femmes (The Voice of Women), and in 1849 she became the first woman in France to run for national political office. In this work, Honoré Daumier portrays Deroin’s supporters as bordering on fanaticism in their devotion to her cause.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Delteil 1923 ii/ii
Edition
2nd of 2 states
Printing/Publishing
printed 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.c.r.: 1306
printed in ink l.r.: Imp. Aubert & Cie (. under ie)
Accession Number
1342-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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