Un Parricide
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808–1879)
Un Parricide (A Parricide), 1850
Lithograph
Gift of Eugene L. Garbaty, 1954.129
A former journalist, the shrewd politician Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) stands ready to assassinate the Press, allegorized as an unsuspecting read-ing woman bathed in radiant light. He wields an enormous club—representing a new law curtail-ing the freedom of the press.