Comment! Encore une caricature sur nous, ce matin, dans le Charivari... (What! Another caricature of us in Charivari!...), plate 39 from the series Les Bas-Bleus (The Bluestockings)

Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879

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1844

Lithograph on wove paper

Sur blanc impression

Image: 8 9/16 × 7 1/2 in. (21.7 × 19.1 cm)

Sheet: 13 5/8 × 9 13/16 in. (34.6 × 24.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund

PR.2003.15

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 BAS BLEUS.; lettered, upper right: 39.; initialled, on stone, lower left: h.D.; inscribed, on stone, lower right: 612.; lettered, lower left margin: Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse, 29.; lettered, lower right margin: Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie [ie in superscript]; lettered, lower center: Comment! encore une caricature sur nous, ce matin, dans le Charivari! [bolded] . . . .ah! jour de ma / vie! j'espère bien que cette fois c'est la dernière!... et si jamais ce Daumier me tombe / sous la main, il lui en coutera cher pour s'être permis de tricoter des Bas bleus.

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

ARTH 50, Romanticism, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2015

ARTH 50, Romanticism, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2015

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

A Space for Dialogue 65, Aggressive Art; Early Caricature and Self-Parody in France and England, Dylan Hayley Leavitt, Class of 2011, The Kathryn Conroy Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 2-October 2011.

France in Transformation: The Caricature of Honore Daumier, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 25-August 24, 2009.

Introduction to the History of Art II, 1500 to present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 24-March 14, 2004.

Publication History

Dylan Hayley Leavitt, A Space for Dialogue 65, Aggressive Art; Early Caricature and Self-Parody in France and England, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. p. 3.

Provenance

Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints and Drawings, Dallas, Texas; sold to present collection, 2003.

Catalogue Raisonne

Hazard (1904): 723; Delteil (1926): 1259; Daumier Register: 1259

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