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Currently not on display

Honoré Daumier

Marseille, 1808 - Valmondois, 1879

<The Blue-stockings>: (13) — Sir, excuse me if I inconvenience you a little... but you understand that I'm now writing a new novel, and I need to consult a multitude of old authors!... — (The Gentleman, aside) Old authors!... Heavens, she should have consulted them while they were alive, for she must have been their contemporary!...

Date 1844
Materials and Techniques lithograph, newsprint paper
Size(cm) 21.9 x 19.6
Standard ref. Delteil 1233 (iii/iii), Tobu I-452
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2000-0621

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. 184

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. 68.

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