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(French, 1808–1879)
Mon vélocipède! (My bicycle!), 1868
Lithograph
Gift of Eugene L. Garbaty, 1954.169
A woman representing Peace is riding a bicycle with a can-non strapped to its frame. Daumier expressed in his prints from this time a growing sense of foreboding about Prus-sian militarism, sounding the alarm about the inevitability of a Franco-Prussian War. Daumier’s fears were well founded. In 1870, Prussia invaded France, setting off a brief but devastating war that would leave France humili-ated, amputated of the key border provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, and embroiled in the bloody civil war of the Paris Commune.
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The Human Comedy: Chronicles of 19th-Century France
Mon vélocipède !
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) Mon vélocipède! (My bicycle!), 1868 Lithograph Gift of Eugene L. Garbaty, 1954.169
A woman representing Peace is riding a bicycle with a can-non strapped to its frame. Daumier expressed in his prints from this time a growing sense of foreboding about Prus-sian militarism, sounding the alarm about the inevitability of a Franco-Prussian War. Daumier’s fears were well founded. In 1870, Prussia invaded France, setting off a brief but devastating war that would leave France humili-ated, amputated of the key border provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, and embroiled in the bloody civil war of the Paris Commune.