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One hat . . . two hats . . . I just hope these two haven't committed suicide in the field! (Un chapeau . . . deux chapeaux . . . les malheureux seraient-ils allés se suicider dans les blés!), number 34 from the series The Good Bourgeois (Les bons bourgeois)

One hat . . . two hats . . . I just hope these two haven't committed suicide in the field! (Un chapeau . . . deux chapeaux . . . les malheureux seraient-ils allés se suicider dans les blés!), number 34 from the series The Good Bourgeois (Les bons bourgeois)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
One hat . . . two hats . . . I just hope these two haven't committed suicide in the field! (Un chapeau . . . deux chapeaux . . . les malheureux seraient-ils allés se suicider dans les blés!), number 34 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.
1977.384
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. 1510
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1985. p. 12, cat. no. 4

  • 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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