Ma femme reste bien long-temps a ce banquet...voila bientôt quarante huit heures qu'elle est partie! (My wife has stayed quite a long time at the banquet... it's almost 48 hours since she left!)
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
1849
Hand-colored lithograph on wove paper
Sur blanc impression
Sheet: 12 11/16 × 10 3/16 in. (32.2 × 25.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2005.22
Portfolio / Series Title
Plate 10 from Les Femmes Socialistes (The Socialist Women)
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 FEMMES SOCIALISTES.; lettered, upper right: 10.; initialled, on stone, lower left: h.D.; inscribed, on stone, lower right: 1132; lettered, lower left margin: Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse.; lettered, lower center margin: -Ma femme reste bien long-temps à ce banquet..... voilà bientôt / quarante huit heures qu'elle est partie!; lettered, lower right margin: Imp. Aubert & C.ie [ie in superscript]; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: P2239 - IR 1445 A FAR; inscribed, in graphite, lower center: #0506v; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: Coll. Cognacq [underscrored]; Collector's mark, stamped, in black ink, lower right: CG [G within C; Lugt 538d]
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
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
WGSS 30.05/LACS 36, Maid in America, Francine A'Ness, Spring 2021
ARTH 48.05, Satire: Art, Politics & Critique, Kristin O'Rourke, Winter 2022
ARTH 48.05, Satire: Art, Politics & Critique, Kristin O'Rourke, Winter 2022
ARTH 48.05, Satire: Art, Politics, & Critique, Kristin O'Rourke, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
France in Transformation: The Caricature of Honore Daumier, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 25-August 24, 2009.
Who Cares?- WGSS 30.05 Maid in America: The Politics of Domestic Labor, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 12-August 11, 2024.
Publication History
Abigail Weir, France in Transition: The Caricature of Honore Daumier, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2009, ill. cover.
Provenance
Gabriel Cognacq (1880-1951), Paris [Lugt 538d]; Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2005.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 1799; Delteil (1926): 1927; Daumier Register: 1927
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