Baissez le rideau, la farce est jouée (Lower the Curtain, the Farce is Over)

1834

Honoré Daumier

Artist, French, 1808 - 1879

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.9 x 27.7 cm (7 13/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 27.5 x 36.1 cm (10 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.2937

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Delteil, no. 86, State only

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 39.

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

Wikidata ID

Q64957711

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