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The nights of Penelope. Her absent husband's adorable profile Always shone like a star before her soft eyes. But for three years to weave his cunning and canvas She must have had a proud thread. (Les Nuits de Pénélope), number 6 from the series Ancient History (Histoire Ancienne)

The nights of Penelope. Her absent husband's adorable profile Always shone like a star before her soft eyes. But for three years to weave his cunning and canvas She must have had a proud thread. (Les Nuits de Pénélope), number 6 from the series Ancient History (Histoire Ancienne)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
The nights of Penelope. Her absent husband's adorable profile Always shone like a star before her soft eyes. But for three years to weave his cunning and canvas She must have had a proud thread. (Les Nuits de Pénélope), number 6 from the series Ancient History (Histoire Ancienne)
Date
1842
Medium
Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions
9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of the Louis and Annette Kaufman Trust
Accession No.
2001.116.75
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

28 December 2001, gifted by Annette Kaufman (Los Angeles, CA) 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. 930

  • Selections from the Louis and Annette Kaufman Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/28/2002–11/3/2002

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