Télémaque Interrogé Par Les Sages (Telemachus Questioned by the Sages), plate 42 from the series Histoire Ancienne (Ancient History) in Le Charivari
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
published December 14, 1842
Lithograph on paper
Image: 9 13/16 × 8 1/4 in. (24.9 × 21 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/4 × 9 15/16 in. (37.4 × 25.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Varujan Boghosian
PR.2003.44.2
Printer
Imprimerie d'Aubert & Cie, Paris
Publisher
Chez Bauger & Cie, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Lettered, upper center: HISTORIE ANCIENNE; lettered, upper right: 42.; initialled, on stone, lower right: h.D. 437; lettered, lower left margin: Chez Bauger R. du Croissant, 16. lettered, lower right margin: Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie [ie in superscript]; lettered, lower center: TÉLÉMAQUE INTERROGÉ PAR LES SAGES. / A l'aspect imposant de ces nobles ganaches, / Télémaque en finaud jura ses plus grands Dieux, / Qu'il voudrait échanger ses naissantes moustaches / Contre la majesté de leurs front radieux. / (Fénélon. Livre XXIV) [Translated text: TELEMACHUS INTERROGATED BY THE SAGES. At the imposing view of these noble blockheads Telemachus is struck with awe He would have liked to exchange his budding mustache for the majesty of their radiant foreheads. (Fénélon book XXIV)]
Provenance
Varujan Boghosian, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2003.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 1942; Delteil (1926): 966; Daumier Register: 966
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