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
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
Research Area
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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