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- Artist
- Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879) - Title
- Oh, my dear, what a singular education you give to your daughter! At twelve, I had already written a novel in two volumes . . . and completed, my mother forbade me to read it, she found it too advanced for my age. (Ah! ma chère, quelle singulière éducation vous donnez à votre fille?mais à douze ans, moi, j'avais déjà écrit un roman en deux volumes... et même une fois terminé, ma mère m'avait défendu de le lire, tellement elle le trouvé avancé pour mon âge.), number 35 from the series The Bluestockings (Les Bas-Bleus)
- Date
- 1844
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- 9 5/16 x 7 1/8 in. Image
- Credit
- Gift of Helen Wurdemann
- Accession No.
- 1986.298
- 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. 1255
- 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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