Ten Assassinations for a Penny
1897
- Medium
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- 60.6 × 46.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-1156950
Nineteenth-century French lithographs, including Steinlen’s charged political images, offer wide-ranging documentation of the life at the time. In 1881 France passed a law granting freedom of the press, resulting in numerous magazines of humor and social criticism. An advocate for the poor, the downtrodden, and the working classes, Steinlen contributed artwork to journals linked to the leftist movement, such as the anarchist publication La feuille (The Newspaper), in which Ten Assassinations for a Penny was reproduced. Steinlen’s illustrations for La feuille comment satirically on the article…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake, 2012.271
Registry history
- 1897 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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