Honoré Daumier
Sir… here is what we will be giving this year as a bonus to the subscribers of the Musical Universe… 125 albums that you can have bound, some more magnificently than others. Eleven portraits of Mr. Musard, at differfent ages, but always with the same black suit. Three trumpets, more or less in key. Forty admission tickets, even exit tickets, for each of our concerts…Eighty seven musical scores…and a reed pipe.
1845
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Honoré Daumier
Sir… here is what we will be giving this year as a bonus to the subscribers of the Musical Universe… 125 albums that you can have bound, some more magnificently than others. Eleven portraits of Mr. Musard, at differfent ages, but always with the same black suit. Three trumpets, more or less in key. Forty admission tickets, even exit tickets, for each of our concerts…Eighty seven musical scores…and a reed pipe.
1845
Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 365 × 237 mm. (14 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 24 from the series "Les Philantropes du jour"
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Hoff, Hyndman, Pennsylvania, in Memory of William L. Hoff
Object Number
1989.726
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1989; Ann Hoff, Hyndman, PA; purchased from Ferdinand Roten
Inscribed: FACE (in image): TE, 'LES PHILANTROPES DU JOUR.'; below image, 'Monsieur... voici ce que nous donnons cette année en prime aux abonnés de l'Univers Musical... cent vignt cinq albums que vous pourrez fair relier plus magnifiquement les uns que les autres. Onze portraits de M. Musard à des ages différens mais toujours avec le même habit noir... trois trompettes plus ou moins à clefs... quarante droits d'entrée et même de sortie pour chawn de nos concerts... quatre vignt sept partitions... et un mirliton.'; (in graphite): LRC, 'LO 1316' VERSO: clean of inscriptions
