Nos comptes sont faciles à établir...vous m'aviez confié mille exemplaires de votre recueil poétique... (The calculation is very easy: You gave me 1'000 copies of your poetry...), plate 30 from the series Les Bas-Bleu (The Bluestockings)
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
1844
Lithograph on wove paper
Sur blanc impression
Image: 9 1/16 × 7 5/16 in. (23 × 18.6 cm)
Sheet: 13 11/16 × 9 15/16 in. (34.7 × 25.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund
PR.2004.57.4
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 30.; initialled, on stone, lower left: h.D.; inscribed, on stone, lower center: Soupirs / de mon âme; inscribed, on stone, lower right: 608; 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: Nos comptes sont faciles à établir ... vous m'aviez confié mille exemplaires de votre recueil / poétique intitulé «soupirs de mon âme...» vingt sept volumes ont été donnés aux journaux... / et en défalquant ce que j'ai vendu je trouve qu'il me reste juste neuf cent soixante treize «soupirs de votre âme» dans mon magasin!... [Translated text: The calculation is very easy: You gave me 1,000 copies of your poetry "Sighs of my soul", of which 27 went to the newspapers. Deducting the sales, there are exactly 973 "Sighs of your soul" left in my shop!]
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 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 Printseller, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 714; Delteil (1926): 1250; Daumier Register: 1250
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