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Sir, excuse me if I bother you a bit, but you see, as I am working on a new novel, I need to consult a ton of old authors! - (The gentleman aside) . . . old authors! For goodness sake, she should have consulted them while they were still alive because she must be their contemporary! (Monsieur, pardon si je vous gêne un peu . . . mais vous comprenez qu'écrivant en ce moment un roman nouveau, je dois consulter une foule d'auteurs anciens! . . . - (Le Monsieur à part.) Des auteurs anciens! . . . parbleu elle aurait bien dû les consulter de leur vivant, car elle a dû être leur contemporaine! . . . ), number 13 from the series The Bluestockings (Les Bas-Bleus)

Sir, excuse me if I bother you a bit, but you see, as I am working on a new novel, I need to consult a ton of old authors! - (The gentleman aside) . . . old authors! For goodness sake, she should have consulted them while they were still alive because she must be their contemporary! (Monsieur, pardon si je vous gêne un peu . . . mais vous comprenez qu'écrivant en ce moment un roman nouveau, je dois consulter une foule d'auteurs anciens! . . . - (Le Monsieur à part.) Des auteurs anciens! . . . parbleu elle aurait bien dû les consulter de leur vivant, car elle a dû être leur contemporaine! . . . ), number 13 from the series The Bluestockings (Les Bas-Bleus)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
Sir, excuse me if I bother you a bit, but you see, as I am working on a new novel, I need to consult a ton of old authors! - (The gentleman aside) . . . old authors! For goodness sake, she should have consulted them while they were still alive because she must be their contemporary! (Monsieur, pardon si je vous gêne un peu . . . mais vous comprenez qu'écrivant en ce moment un roman nouveau, je dois consulter une foule d'auteurs anciens! . . . - (Le Monsieur à part.) Des auteurs anciens! . . . parbleu elle aurait bien dû les consulter de leur vivant, car elle a dû être leur contemporaine! . . . ), number 13 from the series The Bluestockings (Les Bas-Bleus)
Date
1844
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
8 5/8 x 7 3/4 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1986.294
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

To 1986, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); November 1986, 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. 1233

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

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