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Aeneas and Dido. A protective fog obscured the heavens; and as they were both without an umbrella, In a dark cave leading to her friend, Aeneas, on this nice day, tops his personal best. (Aeneid corrected by Mr. Villemain) (Enée et Didon. Un brouillard protecteur obscurcissait les cieux; et comme ils se trouvaient tous deux sans parapluie, Dans une grotte sombre entrainant son amie, Enée en ce beau jour vit couronner ses feux (Enéïde corrigée par M. Villemain).), number 15 from the series Ancient History (Histoire Ancienne)

Aeneas and Dido. A protective fog obscured the heavens; and as they were both without an umbrella, In a dark cave leading to her friend, Aeneas, on this nice day, tops his personal best. (Aeneid corrected by Mr. Villemain) (Enée et Didon. Un brouillard protecteur obscurcissait les cieux; et comme ils se trouvaient tous deux sans parapluie, Dans une grotte sombre entrainant son amie, Enée en ce beau jour vit couronner ses feux (Enéïde corrigée par M. Villemain).), number 15 from the series Ancient History (Histoire Ancienne)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
Aeneas and Dido. A protective fog obscured the heavens; and as they were both without an umbrella, In a dark cave leading to her friend, Aeneas, on this nice day, tops his personal best. (Aeneid corrected by Mr. Villemain) (Enée et Didon. Un brouillard protecteur obscurcissait les cieux; et comme ils se trouvaient tous deux sans parapluie, Dans une grotte sombre entrainant son amie, Enée en ce beau jour vit couronner ses feux (Enéïde corrigée par M. Villemain).), number 15 from the series Ancient History (Histoire Ancienne)
Date
1842
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
9 1/2 x 8 11/16 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1977.359
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. 939
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1985. p. 31, cat. no. 23

  • 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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