Le Cid se mettant aussi en campagne pour aller combattre les Maures from Actualités

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Le Cid se mettant aussi en campagne pour aller combattre les Maures from Actualités

Creator Honoré Daumier (French, 1808 - 1879)

Date1859

Mediumlithograph on paper

DimensionsImage: 21.3 x 26.7 cm (8 3/8 x 10 1/2 in.)

Credit LinePurchase, 1966

Object number65/30

ProvenanceThe prints that Daumier created for the Actualités series, like this one, often carried socio-political undertones. This lithograph refers to the Spanish intervention in Morocco, after war broke out between Spain and Morocco in 1859. The war lasted a year. The Spaniards won the war, winning the battle of Tetuan, on Moroccan territory. A knight wearing his helmet and armoury rides by a crowd of agitated men on a white horse. Le Cid is the name of a French tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille in the seventeenth century (a play based on the Spanish dramatist Guillen de Castro’s Las mocedades del Cid).In Corneille’s play, the Cid earns the gratitude of his compatriots because he has many military victories to his credit. The representation of the Cid in this lithograph is not too dissimilar from Daumier’s images of Don Quixote.

LocationNot currently on display

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