Square Napoléon (Napoleon Square), from Album du Siège (Album of War)

Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879

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1870

Lithograph on wove paper

Sur blanc impression

Image: 8 9/16 × 7 1/16 in. (21.8 × 17.9 cm)

Sheet: 12 5/16 × 9 5/16 in. (31.3 × 23.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

PR.956.46.7

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Initialled, on stone, lower left: h.D. [on reverse of tombstone]; inscribed, on stone, lower left: MORTS / A / SÉDAN / 1870 [on front of first tombstone]; inscribed, on stone, lower center: MORTS / A / LAMBRESSA [on front of second tombstone]; inscribed, on stone, lower center: MORTS / A / CAYENNE [N reversed; on front of third tombstone]; inscribed, on stone, lower right: MORTS / AU / BOULEVARD / MONTMARTRE / DEUX / DECEMBRE 1851 [on front of fourth tombstone]; inscribed, on stone, lower right: 66; lettered, lower center: SQUARE NAPOLÉON; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: D3824; inscribed, in graphite, lower center: 24-21 Aln # 9.-

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

FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Spring 2019

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

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

Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; sold to present collection, 1956.

Catalogue Raisonne

Hazard (1904): 3434; Delteil (1926), Vol. 10: 3824; Daumier Register: 3824

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