La mère est dans de feu de la composition, l’enfant est dans l’eau de la baigmoire! (Mother is in the heat of composition, the child is in the bath water) from Les Bas-Bleus (The Bluestockings
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
1844
Lithograph on ivory wove paper
Image: 9 1/4 × 7 9/16 in. (23.5 × 19.2 cm)
Sheet: 13 9/16 × 9 7/8 in. (34.4 × 25.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund
2019.1.3
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Initialled, in image, lower right: h.D.; numbered, in image, lower right: 566; printed, top margin, center: LES BAS-BLEUS.; printed, lower left, beneath image: Chez Aubert, Pl.d la Bourse, 29.; printed, lower right, beneath image: Imp. D'Aubert & Cie.; printed, bottom margin, left to right: La Mere est dans le feu de la composition, l'enfant est dans l'eau de la baignoire!
Course History
ARTH 48.05, Satire: Art, Politics & Critique, Kristin O'Rourke, Winter 2022
ARTH 48.05, Satire: Art, Politics & Critique, Kristin O'Rourke, Winter 2022
ARTH 48.05, Satire: Art, Politics, & Critique, Kristin O'Rourke, Fall 2022
Provenance
Susan Schulman Fine Art, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2019.
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