Un Grand Homme de Plus (Another Great Man), plate 36 from the series Les Beaux Jours de la Vie (The Best Days of Life) in Le Charivari
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
published December 2, 1844
Lithograph on paper
Sheet: 13 9/16 × 9 5/8 in. (34.5 × 24.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert Dance, Class of 1977
PR.994.44.2
Printer
Imprimerie d'Aubert & Cie, 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: LES BEAUX JOURS DE LA VIE.; lettered, upper right: 36.; inscribed, on stone, upper left: BREVET / D'INVENTION [on sheet of paper]; initialled, on stone, lower left: h.D; inscribed, on stone, lower left: 687; lettered, lower left margin: Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse, 29.; lettered, lower right margin: Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie [ie in superscript]; lettered, lower center: UN GRAND HOMME DE PLUS. / - Je l'ai, ma femme... le voilà.... ce brevet déclare que mon instrument est au moins aussi pompe et /en outre infiniment plus clyso que tout ce qui s'est fait jusqu'à ce jour... c'est reconnu à la face de / tous les Français.
Provenance
Robert Dance, New York; given to present collection, 1994.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hazard (1904): 760; Delteil (1926), Vol. 4: 1123; Daumier Register: 1123
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