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Honoré Daumier

Despair of Calypso (Le Désespoir de Calypso), 1842

Description

Maker

  • Honoré Daumier, 1808-1879, French
  • Bauger, publisher
  • Aubert & Cie, French, printer

Title

Despair of Calypso (Le Désespoir de Calypso)

Year

1842

Medium

Lithograph on light weigth cream wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • lithograph

Supports

  • Light weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 29.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/2 x 7 15/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, on image, LR: h.D.; Printed, on print, UC: Histoire Ancienne.; Printed, on print, UR: 40.; Printed, on print, LL: Chez Bauger R. du Croissant 16.; Printed, on print, LR: Imp. d'Aubert & Cie.; Printed, on print, LC: LE DÉSESPOIR DE CALYPSO./ Dans le vain espoir d'oublier/ L'ingrat pour qui son cœur sanglote,/ Cette nymphe avait dans sa grotte/ Fait tendre un très joli papier./ (Fénélon. Variante du L. XI.); Written in graphite, on print, LL: 108; Written in graphite, on sheet, LL: D.964 III/ 1842/ 43.192.16; Written, in graphite, on sheet, LR: 20/ 8 1/4 x 10

Identification

State

3rd of 4

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

45.192.16

Projects & Publications

Publications

The Daumier Register

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Prints and Drawings with a Classical Reference

December 15, 1965 - January 9, 1966

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Despair of Calypso (Le Désespoir de Calypso) with the accession number of 45.192.16. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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