Honoré Daumier
Ou peut on être mieux…
1840
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Honoré Daumier
Ou peut on être mieux…
1840
Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 314 × 257 mm. (12 3/8 × 10 1/8 in.)
Image: 244 × 196 mm. (9 5/8 × 7 11/16 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
1996.48.3877
Other states published in the journals "La Caricature" on November 14, 1841, and "Le Charivari" on February 20, 1843. It is not entirely clear if this is an avant lettre state or if it is a state with the inscriptions effaced (there are questionable ink marks above and below the image margins). Delteil describes the avant lettre state as "fort rare."
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
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. 92, #354.
Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1925-1926), vol. 22, n. p., #923.
The Daumier Register, http://www.daumier-register.org/, #923.
Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1925-1926), vol. 22, n. p., #923.
The Daumier Register, http://www.daumier-register.org/, #923.
Inscribed: Signed in stone: lower left "h.D." Inscribed in stone: lower right "305"
Markings: Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)
