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- Artist
- Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879) - Title
- The Sword of Damocles You won't be missing a knife today for dinner, said the amiable tyrant. My Faith! If Damocles Made a pun I think the point is detestable. Academic title of Mr. Patin. (L'épée de Damoclès. Tu ne te plaindras pas de manques en ce jour De couteaux pour diner , dit le tyran aimable. Ma foi! fit Damoclès, si c'est un calembourg Je trouve que la pointe est fort détestable Titre académique de Mr. Patin.), number 11 from the series Ancient History (Histoire Ancienne)
- Date
- 1842
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- 8 7/16 x 7 7/8 in. Image
- Credit
- Gift of Helen Wurdemann
- Accession No.
- 1977.357
- 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. 935
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1985. p. 33, cat. no. 25
- Nineteenth-Century Caricatures by Honoré Daumier: The Helen Wurdemann Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1/13/1996–2/11/1996
- Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/27/1985–6/23/1985
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