Dire que c'est là ce que les Français appellent des chinois!....... appellent des chinois (Strange.. this is what the French call Chinese!)
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
1859
Lithograph on wove paper
Sur Blanc impression
Image: 8 5/8 × 10 9/16 in. (21.9 × 26.8 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 12 11/16 in. (25.7 × 32.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Allerton C. Hickmott, Class of 1917
PR.2000.15.1
Portfolio / Series Title
Plate 21 from En Chine (In China)
Printer
Lithographie Destouches, Paris
Publisher
Martinet-Hautecoeur, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on stone, center: CHINOIS [on jar]; initialled, on stone, lower left: hD; inscribed, on stone, lower right: 113; lettered, lower left margin: m.on [on in superscript and underscored] Martinet, 172, r. Rivoli et 41, r. Vivienne.; lettered, lower right margin: Lith.Destouches, 88, r. Paradis P.re [re in superscript and underscored] Paris; lettered, lower center: -Dire que c'est là ce que les Français appellent des chinois!.......
Provenance
Allerton C. Hickmott; given throught Edward Connery Lathem to present collection, 2000.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 1698; Delteil (1926), Vol. 8: 3120; Daumier Register: 3120
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