Un voisin qui se plaint de ce qu'on arrose son gazon. (A Neighbor Complaining about Someone Watering His Lawn), plate 10 from the series Les Bons Bourgeois (The Good Bourgeois)
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
1846
Lithograph on wove paper
Sur blanc impression
Sheet: 14 1/8 × 10 7/8 in. (35.8 × 27.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Philip Hofer
PR.945.72
Printer
Imprimerie d'Aubert & Cie, Paris
Publisher
Chez Aubert & Cie, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Lettered, upper center: LES BONS BOURGEOIS; lettered, upper right: N.o [o in superscript] 10.; inscribed, on stone, lower left: 903; initialled, on stone, lower right: h.D.; lettered, lower left margin: Chez Aubert Pl de la Bourse, 29; lettered, lower right: Imp. Aubert & C.ie [ie in superscript]; lettered, lower center: Un voisin qui se plaint de ce q'on arrose son gazon.; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: 869; reverse, stamped, in blue ink, lower left: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE / DEPT. OF ART AND / ARCHAEOLOGY
Exhibition History
19th Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 12-March 25, 1979.
Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 26, 1981-January 1982.
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
Collected by Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1945.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 863; Delteil (1925), Vol. 5: 1486; Daumier Register: 1486
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