Qu'il mourut! (May he die!), plate 11 from the series Physionomies Tragico-Classiques (Tragic-Classical Faces) in Le Charivari
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
published February 27, 1841
Lithograph on paper
Sheet: 10 × 14 9/16 in. (25.4 × 37 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Walter Curt Behrandt
PR.942.17
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: PHYSIONOMIES TRAGICO - CLASSIQUES; lettered, upper right: 11.; initialled, on stone, lower left: h.D.; lettered, lower right margin: Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie [ie in superscript]; lettered, lower center: ......Qu'il mourut!.. / (Les Horaces) / Se vend chez Bauger & C.ie [ie in superscript] Editeurs des Dessins de la CARICATURE, du FIGARO et du CHARIVARI Rue du Croissant, 16.
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.
Funny Faces: Selected Satirical Prints and Caricatures from the Permanent Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1-November 2, 1991 (in conjunction with an interdisciplinary conference, The Faces of Physiognomy, in honor off the 250th anniversary of Lavater's birth. Conference organized by the German Department of Dartmouth College. Exhibition organized by Katherine W. Hart
Publication History
Katherine Hart, Physiognomy and the Art of Caricature, essay in Ellis Shookman, editor, The Face of Physiognomy: Interdiciplinary Approaches to Johann Caspar Lavater, Columbia: Camden House, Inc., 1993, pp. 125-138, ill. p. 136
Provenance
Walter Curt Behrandt; given to present collection, 1942.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 2360; Delteil (1926), Vol. 3: 900; Daumier Register: 900
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