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!), plate 10 from the series Les Femmes Socialistes (The Socialist Women)
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 College: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2005.22
Printer
Imprimerie d'Aubert & Cie, Paris
Publisher
Chez Aubert & Cie, Paris
Geography/Culture
Europe, France
Period
19th century
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
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, Winter 2015
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2014
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Spring 2014
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2014
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013
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.
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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