- Est-ce que vous allez ouvrir la porte de la cage - Par exemple.... je vais la repeindre.
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
1870
Lithograph on vélin mince
Image: 9 5/16 × 8 1/16 in. (23.7 × 20.5 cm)
Sheet: 14 7/16 × 10 13/16 in. (36.6 × 27.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, by exchange, in honor of Kathy Hart, Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood Curator of Academic Programming, 1990–2020
2021.23.34
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
ACTUALITÉS; Lettered, upper right: 51; Inscribed, on ground, lower left: h.D.; Inscribed, on ground, lower right: 17.; Lettered, lower left: A de Vresse. r. Rivoli. 58.; Lettered, lower right: Lith. Walter, F.r. Paradis. Pre. 28.; Lettered, lower center: Est-ce que vous allez ouvrir la porte de la cage. Par exemple.... je vais la repeindre.; Inscribed, lower right: Walter frerès 28 février 2 Mars, 1870.
Provenance
Henri Petiet (1894-1980) Lugt online 5031; René Gaston-Dreyfus (1886-1969) (stamped verso). (per Susan Schulman, 8/30/2021)
Catalogue Raisonne
Delteil 3772, II/III (plate 51)
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