Et ils veulent rattraper le train!!! (And they want to catch the train!!!), plate 97 from the series Actualités (News of the Day) in Le Charivari
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
published May 6, 1870
Lithograph on paper
Image: 9 5/16 × 8 1/4 in. (23.7 × 21 cm)
Sheet: 11 7/16 × 9 13/16 in. (29.1 × 25 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.958.314
Printer
Lithographie Walter Frères, Paris
Publisher
A. de Vresse, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Lettered, upper center: ACTUALITÉS; lettered, upper right: 97; inscribed, on stone, upper right: PROGRES [in smoke cloud]; inscribed, on stone, center: COMMISSION / EXTRA PARLEMENTAIRE; initialled, on stone, lower left: h.D.; inscribed, on stone, lower right: 21; lettered, lower left margin: A de Vresse, R. Rivoli 55; lettered, lower right margin: Lith, Walter F.res [res in superscript and underscored] R. Paradis P.re [re in superscript] 28; lettered, lower center: Et ils veulent rattrapper le train !!!; inscribed, in graphite, lower center 77DC $3.50;
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
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, 1958.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 3203; Delteil (1926), Vol. 10: 3782; Daumier Register: 3782
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