Dis donc, not' homme, faut-y avoir une drôle d'idée pour faire faire sa portraiture comme ça!... (I say, my man, one must have strange ideas to have one's portrait done like this!)
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
published 1852
Lithograph on paper
Image: 9 3/4 × 8 5/16 in. (24.8 × 21.1 cm)
Sheet: 14 5/16 × 9 13/16 in. (36.4 × 24.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards Fund
PR.2001.4
Portfolio / Series Title
Plate 8 from Le Public du Salon (The Public at the Salon) in Le Charivari
Printer
Imprimerie Ch. Trinocq, Paris
Publisher
Martinet-Hautecoeur, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Lettered, upper center: LE PUBLIC DU SALON.; lettered, upper right: 8; initialled, on stone, lower left: h.D.; inscribed, on stone, lower right: 359.; lettered, lower left margin: Maison Martinet, r. Vivienne 41 et 11 r. du Coq S.t [t in superscript] Honoré Paris; lettered, lower right margin: Imp. Ch. Trinocq Cour des Miracles, 9, Paris.; lettered, lower center: -Dis donc, not ' homme, faut-y avoir une drôle d'idée pour faire faire sa portraiture / comme ça!....
Course History
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2014
WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2014
ARTH 17.2, FILM 50, When Media Were New, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2014
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Spring 2014
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2014
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 101, The Butt of the Joke: Humor and the Human Body, Grace Hanselman, Class of 2020, Mellon Special Project Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 22 - July 25, 2021.
France in Transformation: The Caricature of Honore Daumier, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 25-August 24, 2009.
Provenance
C. G. Boerner Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2001.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 2468; Delteil (1926): 2298; Daumier Register: 2298
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