C'est-y embêtant de brosser ces machines là...

Honoré Daumier

Artist, French, 1808 - 1879

Honoré Daumier

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 36.3 x 25 cm (14 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.150.92

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Delteil, undescribed


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: ACTUALITES 186.; lower left plate: h.D.; lower right plate: 1248; below image, across bottom printed: Chez Aubert Pl. de la Bourse Imp. Aubert & C.ie / --C'est-y embetant de brosser ces machines l .....c'est sur les bottes que le citoyen / Antoine aurait du mettre un imp t de cent francs par an....au b n fice du domestique / qui les cire!....

Wikidata ID

Q74894117


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