Ah! il prétend m'empêcher d'aller...

1849

Honoré Daumier

Associated Names
Honoré Daumier

Artist, French, 1808 - 1879

The image depicts three adult figures and an infant. Two women stand on the left, facing a man holding the baby on the right. The woman on the far left raises her arm, the central figure gazes intensely at the man, and the woman on the left has her back partially towards the viewer. The man has short, curled hair and an alarmed expression, and is dressed in a patterned outfit. The women have different hairstyles and wear dark dresses. The backdrop shows simple wall lines, likely representing an interior room.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    image: 24 x 19.9 cm (9 7/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 36.2 x 25.2 cm (14 1/4 x 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.150.91

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Delteil, no. 1921, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Professor William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA; gift 1991 to the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

across top printed: LES FEMMES SOCIALISTES. 4.; lower left plate: h.D.; lower right plate: 1304; below image, across bottom printed: Chez Aubert Pl. de la Bourse Imp. Aubert & C.ie / --Ah! il prétend m'empecher d'aller communier avec nos huit cents frères à la barrièr du Maine..... / il faut que je punisse tant d'insolence! / --Arretez, Eglantine, laissez ce tyran aux remords de sa conscience.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 20 / 1921

Wikidata ID

Q74894115

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