Image
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
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Materials
Supports
Dimensions
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Plate: 29.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/2 x 7 15/16 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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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
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State
3rd of 4 Type
Credit
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Museum Works of Art Fund
Object Number
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45.192.16
Projects & Publications
Publications
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
Use
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