Pas engageant pour les autres (Unenticing for the Others)

1868

Honoré Daumier

Associated Names
Honoré Daumier

Artist, French, 1808 - 1879

This is a drawing of three rats gathered around a trap. The drawing shows three rats labeled "HESSE," "HANOVRE," and "SAXE" in front of a large, box-shaped trap set in a barren landscape with several other rats approaching in the background. The trap is depicted with metal hoops and circular entrances. The coloring is soft, with shades of brown dominating the ground, and a pale blue sky overhead. This is in style of Honoré Daumier.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph with watercolor (added by a later hand) on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of David E. Rust

  • Dimensions

    image: 25 x 21.2 cm (9 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 33.8 x 24.7 cm (13 5/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1998.118.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Delteil, no. 3626, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

David E. Rust, Washington, D. C.; gift to NGA, 1998.

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

lower left in stone: h D; lower right in stone: 8.; lower left below image in stone: Ade [?]resse, r. Rivoli 55; lower right below image in stone: Lith, Destouches, r. Paradis Pre 28; upper center above image in stone: ACTUALITES.; upper right above image in stone: 35.; lower center below image in stone: Pas engageant pour les autres.

Wikidata ID

Q75422283

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