Adieu ma chère Flora.... ne manquez pas d'adresser au bureau du journal deux exemplaires de vos bulles de savon... et je ferai mousser cela dans mon feuilleton (Goodbye Flora, my dear... don't forget to send two copies of your frothy little pieces to the newspaper office... and I shall whip them up in my article), plate 21 from the series Les Bas-Blues (The Bluestockings)
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 18791844
Lithograph on wove paper
Sur blanc impression
Image: 9 1/16 × 7 1/2 in. (23 × 19.1 cm)
Sheet: 13 11/16 × 9 15/16 in. (34.7 × 25.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund
PR.2004.57.5
Printer
Imprimerie d'Aubert & Cie, Paris
Publisher
Chez Aubert & Cie, Paris
Geography/Culture
Europe, France
Period
19th century
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Lettered, upper center: LES BAS-BLEUS; lettered, upper right: 21.; initialled, on stone, lower left: h.D; initialled, on stone, lower right: 5 GH; lettered, lower left margin: Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse, 89.; lettered, lower right margin: Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie [ie in superscript]; lettered, lower center: -Adieu ma chère Flora.... ne manquez pas d'adresser au bureau du journal deux exemplai- / res de vos bulles de savon... et je ferai mousser cela dans mon feuilleton.
Exhibition History
France in Transformation: The Caricature of Honore Daumier, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 25-August 24, 2009.
Provenance
Susan Schulman Printseller, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 705; Delteil (1926): 1241; Daumier Register: 1241
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