Open daily. Always free.
- Gentlemen, I am offering your paper a serialized novel that I believe will be perfect for you! The title is "Eloa, or eight days of intimate happiness." The first part consists of ten or twelve volumes, written in the manner of Eugène Sue! - Sorry Madame, but this is indeed frightening, at that rate your eight days will last at least three years! (- Messieurs, je viens offrir à votre journal, un roman-feuilleton qui, je crois, lui conviendra parfaitement! . . . il a pour titre Eloa, ou huit jours de bonheur intime . . . la première partie formera dix ou douze volumes . . . à la manière d'Eugène Sue!... - Pardon madame! . . . mais ceci me paraît effrayant! . . . à ce compte-là vos huit jours dureront trois ans! ), number 6 from the series The Blue-Stockings (Les Bas-Bleus)

- Gentlemen, I am offering your paper a serialized novel that I believe will be perfect for you! The title is "Eloa, or eight days of intimate happiness." The first part consists of ten or twelve volumes, written in the manner of Eugène Sue! - Sorry Madame, but this is indeed frightening, at that rate your eight days will last at least three years! (- Messieurs, je viens offrir à votre journal, un roman-feuilleton qui, je crois, lui conviendra parfaitement! . . . il a pour titre Eloa, ou huit jours de bonheur intime . . . la première partie formera dix ou douze volumes . . . à la manière d'Eugène Sue!... - Pardon madame! . . . mais ceci me paraît effrayant! . . . à ce compte-là vos huit jours dureront trois ans! ), number 6 from the series The Blue-Stockings (Les Bas-Bleus)

On View

Not currently on view

Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
- Gentlemen, I am offering your paper a serialized novel that I believe will be perfect for you! The title is "Eloa, or eight days of intimate happiness." The first part consists of ten or twelve volumes, written in the manner of Eugène Sue! - Sorry Madame, but this is indeed frightening, at that rate your eight days will last at least three years! (- Messieurs, je viens offrir à votre journal, un roman-feuilleton qui, je crois, lui conviendra parfaitement! . . . il a pour titre Eloa, ou huit jours de bonheur intime . . . la première partie formera dix ou douze volumes . . . à la manière d'Eugène Sue!... - Pardon madame! . . . mais ceci me paraît effrayant! . . . à ce compte-là vos huit jours dureront trois ans! ), number 6 from the series The Blue-Stockings (Les Bas-Bleus)
Date
1844
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
9 1/16 x 7 1/2 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1985.116
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

To 1985, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); November 1985, 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. 1226

  • Daumier Lithographs: Characters and Caricatures: Chazen Museum of Art, 12/23/2016–2/19/2017
  • Page Turners: Women and Letters, 16th-20th Centuries: Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 1/21/2016–5/22/2016

The Chazen Museum of Art welcomes comments or inquiries about works in our collection. Please allow two–three weeks for a response. Chazen staff is not able to provide valuations or authentications and such inquiries cannot be answered.

"*" indicates required fields

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Name*