by Honoré Daumier, Antoine François Hippolyte Fabre · Antigonos Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783563047613
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«Némésis médicale illustrée, recueil de satires: Tome 1» is a collection of illustrated medical satires by Honoré Daumier and Antoine François Hippolyte Fabre.
The volume brings together illustrated medical satires that poke fun at the practice of medicine in the nineteenth century through scenes in which image and text combine to humorously criticize the uses and abuses of the healthcare profession. The caricatural gaze of Daumier and Fabre thus portrays health and illness in nineteenth-century France.
Unchanged reprint of the original 1840 edition, published by Antigonos Verlag in 2025. First volume of the work in French; paperback, 334 pages.
Readers interested in graphic satire, the work of Honoré Daumier and the history of medicine in the nineteenth century.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870. He earned a living producing caricatures and cartoons in newspapers and periodicals such as La Caricature and Le Charivari, for which he became well known in his lifetime and is still remembered today. He was a republican democrat, who satirized and lampooned the monarchy, aristocracy, clergy, politicians, the judiciary, lawyers, police, detectives, the wealthy, the military, the bourgeoisie, as well as his countrymen and human nature in general.
