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Currently not on display

Honoré Daumier

Marseille, 1808 - Valmondois, 1879

<News>: (25) — Yes, mister Rifolet, they say that the Cossacks appear to be marching to Constantinople only the better to fool us.. in reality, they're on the way to Paris... personally, I've taken all my precautions, I've already carefully hidden all my packets of candles.

Date 1853
Materials and Techniques lithograph
Size(cm) 24.6 x 21.8
Inscriptions Signed on the stone, lower left: h. D.; numbered on the stone, lower right: 965
Standard ref. Delteil 2265 (ii/ii), Tobu III-411
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2000-1685

Provenance

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

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. 136.

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