Saturday, January 21, 2012

How do these two works (19th cent.) compare politically and historically?

There is a good bit about the Daumier engraving on the internet - I ume that it records an actual event in 1834. It is an example of Urban Realism. I was working in the National Gallery in London in the 70s when poor Lady Jane was found in a cellar in the Tate Gallery. She came to us and was heavily restored, having been rolled up like a carpet and had been soaked with water during various floods. The son of Henry VIII, Edward VI, nominated his cousin Lady Jane Grey as his heir, and she was briefly Queen in, I think, 1553, before being deposed and beheaded by Edward's sister Mary. This is a huge painting, and not much like the Daumier in execution, but of course it is also in a Realist style. You can look her up in the National Gallery's catalogue.

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