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Parisians waiting for the arrival of the famous comet (Les Parisiens dans l'attente de la fameuse comète),  number 370 from the series News (Actualités)

Parisians waiting for the arrival of the famous comet (Les Parisiens dans l'attente de la fameuse comète), number 370 from the series News (Actualités)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
Parisians waiting for the arrival of the famous comet (Les Parisiens dans l'attente de la fameuse comète), number 370 from the series News (Actualités)
Date
1857
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
7 15/16 x 10 1/8 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1985.72
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

To 1985, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); March 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. 2937

  • Nineteenth-Century Caricatures by Honoré Daumier: The Helen Wurdemann Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1/13/1996–2/11/1996

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