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Currently not on display

Honoré Daumier

Marseille, 1808 - Valmondois, 1879

<PARISIAN SKETCHES>: (21) SCENE OF HORSEFLESH-EATING. — True indeed... there's Sir eating his old horse... I only hope that one day he doesn't get the idea of sitting down to eat his old maid!...

Date 1857
Materials and Techniques lithograph
Size(cm) 20.0 x 26.0
Inscriptions Signed on the stone, lower left: h. D; Numbered on the stone, lower right: 982
Standard ref. Delteil 2912 (ii/ii), Tobu III-439
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2000-1714

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

2000
Honoré Daumier Caricatures III: From the Tobu Collections , Tobu Museum of Art, 5 February 2000 - 14 March 2000, no. 139

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. 137.

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