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

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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

Print

Research Area

Print

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

Anthropology 27.01, Economic Anthropology, Maron Greenleaf, Spring 2024

Socioloty 61.01, Quantative Social Sciences 30.17, Women's, Gender, and Sexualit Studies 33.05 Gender (In)equality, Kristin Smith, Spring 2024

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality, Studies 30.05, Latin American and Caribbean Studies 36.01, Maid in America, Francine A'Ness, Spring 2024

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality, Studies 30.05, Latin American and Caribbean Studies 36.01, Maid in America, Francine A'Ness, Spring 2024

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality, Studies 30.05, Latin American and Caribbean Studies 36.01, Maid in America, Francine A'Ness, Spring 2024

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 19-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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