Square Napoléon (Napoleon Square), from Album du Siège (Album of War)
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
1870
Lithograph on wove paper
Sur blanc impression
Image: 8 9/16 × 7 1/16 in. (21.8 × 17.9 cm)
Sheet: 12 5/16 × 9 5/16 in. (31.3 × 23.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.956.46.7
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Initialled, on stone, lower left: h.D. [on reverse of tombstone]; inscribed, on stone, lower left: MORTS / A / SÉDAN / 1870 [on front of first tombstone]; inscribed, on stone, lower center: MORTS / A / LAMBRESSA [on front of second tombstone]; inscribed, on stone, lower center: MORTS / A / CAYENNE [N reversed; on front of third tombstone]; inscribed, on stone, lower right: MORTS / AU / BOULEVARD / MONTMARTRE / DEUX / DECEMBRE 1851 [on front of fourth tombstone]; inscribed, on stone, lower right: 66; lettered, lower center: SQUARE NAPOLÉON; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: D3824; inscribed, in graphite, lower center: 24-21 Aln # 9.-
Course History
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2014
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Spring 2014
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2014
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2015
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Spring 2019
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
Exhibition History
France in Transformation: The Caricature of Honore Daumier, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 25-August 24, 2009.
Provenance
Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; sold to present collection, 1956.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 3434; Delteil (1926), Vol. 10: 3824; Daumier Register: 3824
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