- Tiens, regarde cette caisse...., elle renferme les envoyés Américains qui se rendent à Pékin!...... - On dirait que cette voiture contient des animaux curieux.... - Ma foi! s'ils sont curieux......, tant pis pour eux, car ils ne voient pas beaucoup le pays qu'ils traversent!
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
1859
Lithograph on paper
Image: 8 1/8 × 10 11/16 in. (20.7 × 27.2 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/16 × 12 13/16 in. (26.5 × 32.5 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
2021.23.70
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on ground, lower left: h.D.; Inscribed, on ground, lower right: 92; Lettered, lower left: Mon Martinet, 172, r. Rivoli et 41, r. Vivienne.; Lettered, lower right: Lith. Destouches, 28, r. Paradis Pre 28; Lettered, lower center: -Tiens, regarde cette caisse...., elle renferme les envoyés Américains qui se rendent à Pékin!...... - On dirait que cette voiture contient des animaux curieux.... - Ma foi! s'ils sont curieux......, tant pis pour eux, car ils ne voient pas beaucoup le pays qu'ils traversent!; Inscribed, lower right: L. D 3114
Provenance
Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris; René Gaston-Dreyfus, (1886-1969), Paris; Susan Schulman Printseller, New York; sold to present collection, 2021.
Catalogue Raisonne
Delteil 3114, III/III
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