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- Artist
- Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879) - Title
- Now that for once is a beautiful view! . . . I can make out all of Paris . . . now I can see my house . . . and there is my wife. . . . now I can see her cousin joining her in the garden. . . . oh Damn! . . . oh damn, I see too much! (Pour une belle vue, v'la une belle vue! . . . j'découvre tout Paris . . . tiens j'vois ma maison . . . tiens j'vois ma femme . . . tiens j'vois son cousin qui arrive la retrouver dans le jardin. . . . ah! sacristi . . . ah! sacristi, v'là qu'jen vois trop.), number 32 from the series The Good Bourgeois (Les bons bourgeois)
- Date
- 1847
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- 14 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. Overall
- Credit
- Gift of Helen Wurdemann
- Accession No.
- 1977.383
- 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. 1508
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1985. p. 11, cat. no. 3
- 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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