La mère est dans de feu de la composition, l’enfant est dans l’eau de la baigmoire! (Mother is in the heat of composition, the child is in the bath water) from Les Bas-Bleus (The Bluestockings

Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879

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1844

Lithograph on ivory wove paper

Image: 9 1/4 × 7 9/16 in. (23.5 × 19.2 cm)

Sheet: 13 9/16 × 9 7/8 in. (34.4 × 25.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund

2019.1.3

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Initialled, in image, lower right: h.D.; numbered, in image, lower right: 566; printed, top margin, center: LES BAS-BLEUS.; printed, lower left, beneath image: Chez Aubert, Pl.d la Bourse, 29.; printed, lower right, beneath image: Imp. D'Aubert & Cie.; printed, bottom margin, left to right: La Mere est dans le feu de la composition, l'enfant est dans l'eau de la baignoire!

Course History

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

Provenance

Susan Schulman Fine Art, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2019.

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