Votre maison me fait l'effet de devoir être d'un bon produit. - Je crois bien.... j'ai fait deux SOUS-SOLS..... et quand par hasard un de ces logements sera vacant, j'y cultiverai des champignons.

Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879

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1856

Lithograph on vélin mince

Image: 8 5/16 × 10 3/8 in. (21.1 × 26.4 cm)

Sheet: 10 11/16 × 15 3/16 in. (27.2 × 38.6 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

2021.23.39

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Lettered, upper center: LOCATAIRES ET PROPRIÉTAIRES; Lettered, upper right: 7; Inscribed, lower left: h.D.; Inscribed, on ground; lower right: 976; Lettered lower left: maison Martinet, 146, r. Rivoli et 41, r. Vivienne; Lettered, lower right: Lith. Destouches, 28, r. Paradis Pre Paris; Lettered, lower center: Votre maison me fait l'effet de devoir être d'un bon produit./ Je crois bien.... j'ai fait deux SOUS-SOLS..... et quand par hasard un de ces logements sera vacant, j'y cultiverai des champignons.; Inscribed, lower right: 6122; Inscribed, lower right: Certifie le tirage conforme Paris le 26 octobre 1856 Destouches

Provenance

Henri Petiet (1894-1980) Lugt online 5031 (per Susan Schulman, 8/30/2021)

Catalogue Raisonne

Delteil 2842, II/II

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