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Honoré Daumier

Lovers of Classical Art Are Ever More Convinced That the Cause of the Arts in France Is Doomed (Amateurs Classiques de Plus en Plus Convaincus Que l'Art Est Perdu en France)

Maker

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879)
Charles Trinocq, printer
Maison Martinet, publisher

Title

Lovers of Classical Art Are Ever More Convinced That the Cause of the Arts in France Is Doomed (Amateurs Classiques de Plus en Plus Convaincus Que l'Art Est Perdu en France)
from the series "Le Public du Salon"

Year

1800s

Medium

  • Lithograph on light weight cream wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Lithograph on light weight cream wove paper

Materials

lithograph

Supports

  • Light weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 27.3 x 21.6 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in bottom margin in brown ink:"Je certifé que le tirage sera en tout conforme à la présente épreuve / 1377/ Paris le 1er Mai 1852./ Ch Trinocq"; Signed, on image, LL: h.D.; Printed, on plate, UC: Le Public du Salon/4; Printed, on plate, LL: Maison Martinet r Vivienne 41 et 11 du Coq St honore Paris; Printed, on plate, LR: Imp Ch Trinocq Cour des Miracles 9 Paris; Printed, on plate, LL to LR: Amateurs classiques de plus en plus convaincus que l'art est perdu en France.

Marks: Tax stamp on verso top left:Timbre National.On verso, bottom left in black ink, collector's stamp, Lugt 94, Mr. and Mrs. Atherton Curtis.Cancelled with square stamp in purple ink.Below collector's stamp, inscribed in graphite "1415" with line through it.

Identification

State

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Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Fazzano Brothers

Object Number

84.198.806

Type

  • Prints

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879)
Charles Trinocq, printer
Maison Martinet, publisher
Lovers of Classical Art Are Ever More Convinced That the Cause of the Arts in France Is Doomed (Amateurs Classiques de Plus en Plus Convaincus Que l'Art Est Perdu en France); from the series "Le Public du Salon", 1800s
Lithograph on light weight cream wove paper
Plate: 27.3 x 21.6 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches)
Gift of the Fazzano Brothers 84.198.806

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