<Strangers in Paris>: (16) The Daguerreotype portrait: — Here is the work of the sun..., how coloured it is, hm?... how warm... and all in three seconds! — Well, true...looking at that, you wouldn 't say that I 'd been in the sun for only three seconds... you 'd think I 'd been in it for three years, because I look like a real negro... never mind, it 's a pretty portrait, and my wife will be well pleased!...|Honoré Daumier |Search Collection | The National Museum of Western Art

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Honoré Daumier

Marseille, 1808 - Valmondois, 1879

<Strangers in Paris>: (16) The Daguerreotype portrait: — Here is the work of the sun..., how coloured it is, hm?... how warm... and all in three seconds! — Well, true...looking at that, you wouldn 't say that I 'd been in the sun for only three seconds... you 'd think I 'd been in it for three years, because I look like a real negro... never mind, it 's a pretty portrait, and my wife will be well pleased!...

Date	1844
Materials and Techniques	lithograph
Size（cm）	22.3 x 18.8
Standard ref.	Delteil 1287 (ii/ii), Tobu I-391
Category	Prints
Collection Number	G.2000-0553

Provenance

Peter Morse; Tobu Museum of Art (Tobu Railway Company); Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.

Exhibition History

1997: Honore Daumier Caricatures from the Tobu Collections: Eyewitness of an Epoch, Tobu Museum of Art, 25 January 1997 - 11 February 1997, no. 159
2022: Prints x Photographs 1839-1900, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 8 October 2022 - 11 December 2022, cat. no. III-1-17

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. 64.
2022: Prints x Photographs 1839-1900(exh. cat.). Wanajo, Eri; Takano, Shiori; Kawazoe, Mana, eds. Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 2022, pp. 92, 186, cat. no. III-1-17, repr.