The Troubadour
Honoré Daumier · 1868–73 · Cleveland Museum of Art
Guide
Adjust the guideNew to it · Medium
Looking for this guide.
From the museum
The troubadour, a medieval traveling poet and entertainer, was a popular subject in 19th-century French art. Associated with chivalry and courtly love, the theme reflects a broader, romantic fascination with France's medieval past. Although Daumier was particularly inspired by the troubadour paintings of French Rococo artist Jean-Antoine Watteau of the 1700s, he rendered the subject here in a powerful style of simplified, muscular form that appealed to modern artists of his own time. Daumier was called the “Michelangelo of caricature” and especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC0
What did you think?
Save this work’s image and museum information on this device to read without a connection.
Ask about this work
Ask in your own words. The answer comes from what the museum has written about the work, and says so when that does not hold it.
Details
- Maker
- Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
- Date
- 1868–73
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 99.5 x 73 x 8 cm (39 3/16 x 28 3/4 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 83.6 x 56.8 cm (32 15/16 x 22 3/8 in.)
- Place of origin
- France
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · On view · 220 19th Century European
- Credit line
- Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
