- Artist: Honoré Daumier
- Artist: Edouard Bouvenne
- Publisher: Aubert & Cie.
Building castles in the air.
1847
Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph with scraping and hand coloring, Sheet: 355 × 272 mm. (14 × 10 11/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 36 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois"
Credit Line
Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number
2001.338
Frederick Mulder, London; William Ivins, New York.
Sona Johnston, BMA (Jacobs Gallery 3), "Honoré Daumier and the Art of Caricature," 19 November 2003 - 21 March 2004.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: UC: 'Les BONS BOURGEOIS.'; URC: 'No. 36.'; LWRC: 'Un chateau en Espagne.' LRQ: 'H.D.955'; 'Chez Aubert & Cie. Pl. de la Bourse.'; painted in brown around the margins: 'E Bouvenne /modele/ 16 mars/ 1847'; VERSO: graphite: BLC: 'F#4784'; BC: 'Delteil 1512 ii/II'
