Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS>: (4) FLORA AND ZEPHYR (DE LA MEURTHE.): Lightly he balances himself / On a foot barely skimming the water's surface:/ Flora who admires him in silence / Says to herself. / Ah! God damn it all, how beautiful he is! (Translated from Anacreon by Ratapoil, retired police colonel, member of Châlons sur Marne society of literature and of the society of the Tenth-of-December in Paris)
Date | 1850 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 21.0 x 28.2 |
Inscriptions | Signed on the stone, within the feigned painting, lower left: h. D.; Numbered on the stone, within the feigned painting, lower right: 209 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 2053 (i/i), Tobu II-183 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-0885 |
Provenance
Peter Morse; Tobu Museum of Art (Tobu Railway Company); Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.
Exhibition History
- 1999
- Honoré Daumier Caricatures II: From the Tobu Collections, Tobu Museum of Art, 25 January 1999 - 23 February 1999, no. 56
Bibliography
- 2002
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 35 (Apr. 2000-Mar. 2001), 2002, Takahashi, Akiya. New Acquisitions. pp. 14-15, List of New Acquisitions. p. 84.