Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<Parisian Freebooters>: (12) The Crocodile: This has to do with a variety of species of Crocodile, which was known to the ancients under the name of Tantalus and which a Gymnasium naturalist of our time has called the Gastronome without money. This voracious whale-like creature is most commonly found in the localities of Merchants of Eatables. His teeth are pointed and very long from lack of exercise, since he uses only his eyes to devour. When he has had the perseverance to remain for a whole day static in front of his prey he sometimes ends up by having the luck to catch... a crick in the neck. He feeds himself only on desires and vain hopes, he is also remarkably thin. Very different from other fish of his species that swim in open water, this type of Crocodile is always in the dry.
Date | 1838 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 22.8 x 20.4 |
Inscriptions | Signed on the stone, lower left: h. Daumier; Unnumbered on the stone |
Standard ref. | Delteil 534 (iii/iii), Tobu II-193 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-0896 |
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. 64
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.