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DAUMIER, HONORE (1808-1879). PRIMO SAIGNARE, DEINDE PURGARE, POSTEA CLYSTERIUM DONARE (FIRST HE BLEEDS THEM, THEN HE PURGES THEM, THEN HE GIVES THEM AN ENEMA). Lithograph with contemporary hand coloring, sur blanc. Dec. 5, 1833. Ref: Delteil 73, as published in La Caricature No. 161, pl. 337 and 338. 131.4mm x173.8mm. 13 x17. With full margins. Framed.This lithograph depicts the bleeding, purging and medication of a man. The print shows from left to right: King Louis-Philippe, a coachman (the French people?), Ferdinand Duc d'Orléans, and Marshal Lobau with his famous syringe. Louis-Philippe in 1833 bleeds a mail messenger (postillon) who has fallen off his horse, thereby saving his life. The King had learned the art of blood-letting in a hospital in his youth and always carried a bleeding-knife on him. Symbolically it is not the postillon, but rather the French nation which is being bled.Brandeis Univ.