Une loterie philanthropique (A Philanthropic Lottery), plate 80 from Les beaux jours de la vie (The Beautiful Days of Life)
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
1843-1846
Lithograph on paper
Sheet: 12 13/16 × 9 15/16 in. (32.6 × 25.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl, and John S. Stahl in memory of their parents Barbara J. and David G. Stahl, Class of 1947
2014.73.74
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
On view
Inscriptions
Numbered, lower center, in image: 830; inscribed, upper center, in plate: LES BEAUX JOURS DE LA VIE.; inscribed, upper right, in plate: No. 80.; inscribed, lower left, in plate: Chez Aubert Pl. de la Bourse, 29.; inscribed, lower right, in plate : Imp. d'Aubert & Cie. ; inscribed, lower center, in plate: UNE LOTERIE PHILANTROPIQUE. / - Le monsieur – pour mes vingt francs je gagne un affreux sac de dame … quell ridicule! / - La dame – et moi une paire de rasoirs dont l'un est fort ébrèché … quelle scie! …; inscribed, lower right, in graphite: 1168
Exhibition History
Gold: Materiality, Morality, and Metaphor, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 14, 2024.
Provenance
Collected by Barbara Jaffe Stahl (1930-2004) and David Gerald Stahl (1926-2013), Manchester, New Hampshire; bequeathed to their children Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl and John S. Stahl, 2013; given to present collection, 2014.
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