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- Artist
- Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879) - Title
- Word of honour Madame Frenouillet, it’s not that I want to flatter us, but watching the two of us swim one could take us for two fishes: a carp and an eel. (Parole d'honneur Mme Frénouillet, ce n'est pas pour nous flatter mais nous pinçons la natation un peu crânement. En nous voyant on jurerait deux poissons . . . Une Carpe et une Anguille.), number 21 from the series The Bathers (Les Baigneurs)
- Date
- 1842
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- 8 7/8 x 10 1/4 in. Image
- Credit
- Gift of Helen Wurdemann
- Accession No.
- 1977.326
- Classification
- Prints
- Geography
- France
Related
To 1977, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); December 1977, gifted to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Delteil, Loys. "Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XX-XXIX." Paris, 1906-1926. no. 781
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1985. p. 59, cat. no. 47
- Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/27/1985–6/23/1985
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