There sits a woman who, at this solemn hour in our history, blindly devotes herself to her children . . . to imagine that there are still such dull-witted, backward creatures in France! (Voila une femme qui, a l'heure solennelle où nous sommes, s'occupe bêtement de ses enfans . . . qu'il y a encore en France des êtres abruptes et arrièrés!), number 2 from the series The Divorcées (Les Divorceuses)

There sits a woman who, at this solemn hour in our history, blindly devotes herself to her children . . . to imagine that there are still such dull-witted, backward creatures in France! (Voila une femme qui, a l'heure solennelle où nous sommes, s'occupe bêtement de ses enfans . . . qu'il y a encore en France des êtres abruptes et arrièrés!), number 2 from the series The Divorcées (Les Divorceuses)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
There sits a woman who, at this solemn hour in our history, blindly devotes herself to her children . . . to imagine that there are still such dull-witted, backward creatures in France! (Voila une femme qui, a l'heure solennelle où nous sommes, s'occupe bêtement de ses enfans . . . qu'il y a encore en France des êtres abruptes et arrièrés!), number 2 from the series The Divorcées (Les Divorceuses)
Date
1848
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
14 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1980.541
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

to 1980, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); 27 December 1980, gifted to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Delteil, Loys. "Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XX-XXIX." Paris, 1906-1926. no. 1770

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