Bas-relief en pain d'épices... (Bas-relief in gingerbread...), plate 221 from the series Actualités in Le Charivari
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
published October 6, 1851
Lithograph on paper
Sur blanc impression
Image: 8 9/16 × 11 1/16 in. (21.7 × 28.1 cm)
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 14 3/16 in. (27.5 × 36 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
PR.954.20.151
Printer
Imprimerie Ch. Trinocq, 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: ACTUALITÉS; lettered, upper right: 221; signed, on stone, lower left: h.Daumier; inscribed, on stone, lower right: 332; lettered, lower left margin: Chez Aubert & C.ie [ie in superscript] Pl. de la Bourse, 2g. Paris; lettered, lower right margin: Imp. Ch. Trinocq Courdes Miracles, 9. Paris.; lettered, lower center: Bas-relief en pain d'épices destiné à faire passer à la postérité la plus reculée le souvenir de l'entrée / triomphale du général Léon Faucher dans la ville de RHEIMS
Course History
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013
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
Collected by Hersey Egginton (1875-1951); bequeathed to his wife, Mary E. (Benner) Egginton (1875-1962), Garden City, New York, 1951; given to present collection, 1954.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 2912; Delteil (1926), Vol. 7: 2155.; Daumier Register: 2155
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