Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS>: (12) Cupid, a shrewd god, but full of vanity, / Bounds upon the table at the risk of a sprain, / In order to prove that his figure is wholly beautiful, / Between the two candlesticks he shows them his torso!
Date | 1850 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 20.8 x 27.6 |
Inscriptions | Signed on the stone, within the feigned painting, lower left: h. D.; Numbered on the stone, within the feigned painting, lower right: 227 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 2061 (i/i), Tobu II-185 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-0887 |
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. 58
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. 85.