Skip to main content

Visit Main Menu Block

  • Hours & Admission
  • Accessibility & Amenities
  • Tours & Group Visits
  • Visitor Guidelines

Exhibitions and Events Main Menu Block

  • Exhibitions
  • Events

Art and Design Main Menu Block

  • Collection
  • Collection Research
  • Past Exhibitions
  • Watch / Listen / Read

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Image

Honoré Daumier

What a Nuisance to Brush These Things... (C'est y embêtant de brosser ces Machines Là...)

Description

Maker

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879)
Aubert &amp

Title

What a Nuisance to Brush These Things... (C'est y embêtant de brosser ces Machines Là...)
from the series "Actualités"

Year

1849

Medium

  • Lithograph on light weight cream wove paper mounted on light weight board

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Lithograph on light weight cream wove paper mounted on light weight board

Materials

lithograph

Supports

  • Light weight cream wove paper mounted on light weight board

Dimensions

Plate: 29.5 x 20.8 cm (11 5/8 x 8 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, on image, LL: h.D.; Printed, on print, UC: Actualites.; Printed, on print, UR: 186; Printed, on print, LL: Chez Aubert Pl.de la Bourse; Printed, on print, LR: Imp. Aubert & Cie.; Printed, on print, LL to LR: - C'est-y embêtant de brosser ces machines là.... c'est sur les bottes que le citoyen Antoine aurait du mettre un impôt de cent francs par an.... au bénéfice du domestique qui les cire!....; Written, in graphite on sheet, LL: 3543; Written, in graphite, on sheet, LR: 36.101/2; RISD Museum stamp on mount LR

Identification

State

2nd of 2

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

36.101

Type

  • Prints

Use & Feedback

Image 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 and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879)
Aubert & Cie (French), printer
What a Nuisance to Brush These Things... (C'est y embêtant de brosser ces Machines Là...); from the series "Actualités", 1849
Lithograph on light weight cream wove paper mounted on light weight board
Plate: 29.5 x 20.8 cm (11 5/8 x 8 3/16 inches)
Mary B. Jackson Fund 36.101

To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

Feedback

We view our online collection as a living documents, and our records are frequently revised and enhanced. If you have additional information or have spotted an error, please send feedback to curatorial@risd.edu.

RISD Museum

  •  Facebook
  •  Twitter
  •  Instagram
  •  Vimeo
  •  Pinterest
  •  SoundCloud

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Footer Secondary

  • Image Request
  • Press Office
  • Rent the Museum
  • Terms of Use