Pour lors, c'est donc nous qui sommes dans le pétrin (So, it's us now who are in big trouble), plate 37 from the series Émotions Parisiennes (Parisian Emotions)
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
1842
Lithograph on wove paper
Sur blanc impression
Image: 9 5/8 × 8 1/8 in. (24.4 × 20.7 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/16 × 10 3/8 in. (34.1 × 26.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, Class of 1935P and 1939P
PR.949.31
Printer
Imprimerie d'Aubert & Cie, Paris
Publisher
Chez Aubert & Cie, Paris | Chez Bauger & Cie, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Lettered, upper center: ÉMOTIONS PARISIENNES.; lettered, upper right: 37.; inscribed, on stone, upper right: ORDONNANCE [N reversed] / CONCERNANT [N reversed] / LE POIDS / DU PAIN; initialled, lower left: h.D.; lettered, lower left margin: Chez Bauger R. du Croissant 16.; lettered, lower center margin; Chez Aubert gal. Vero-dodat; lettered, lower right: Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie [ie in superscript]; lettered, lower center: Pour lors, c'est donc nous qui sommes dans le pétrin. [Translated text: ORDER CONCERNING THE WEIGHT OF BREAD. "So, it's us now who are in a big trouble"]
Provenance
Dr. Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1949.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 320; Delteil (1926), Vol. 3: 721.; Daumier Register: 721
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