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Le vieux garçon

Honoré Daumier, Charles Ramelet, Benard, Aubert

Le vieux garçon

1832

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Honoré Daumier, Charles Ramelet, Benard, Aubert

Le vieux garçon

1832

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph, Image: 244 x 189 mm. (9 5/8 x 7 7/16 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.17345
Published in Le Charivari, October 19, 1833.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
N.-A. Hazard and Loys Delteil, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre lithographié de Honoré Daumier (Orrouy, Oise: Chez N. A. Hazard, 1904), p. 430, #1991.

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1925-1926), appendix, #42.

The Daumier Register, http://www.daumier-register.org/, #4023.

Inscribed: Inscribed in stone: upper center "L'imagination"; upper right "No. 14"; lower center "Le vieux garçon, / Si je me mariais?......vaut mieux tard que jamais.....celle ci m'aime, celle là aussi.... / elles ne se moquent pas de moi? oh! non."; bottom left "L. de Benard r. de l'Abbaye No. 4"; bottom right "chez Aubert, galerie véro dodat"

Markings: Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)

Artist

Honoré Daumier

French, 1808-1879
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Lithographer

Charles Ramelet

French, 1805 - 1851
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Printer

Benard

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Publisher

Aubert

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