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Les Bons Bourgeois: Quand le Journal est Trop Interressant

Print
1846 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Scene in a barber's shop in front of a mirror. He holds the client's nose in one hand and a cut-throat razor in the other, but is distrtacted by a newspaper which he is reading with another man.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Les Bons Bourgeois: Quand le Journal est Trop Interressant (assigned by artist)
  • Quand le journal est très intéressant (When the journal is very interesting) (published title)
Materials and techniques
Chalk lithograph
Brief description
'Quand le journal est très intéressant', No.12 from the series 'Les Bons Bourgeois', lithograph by Honoré Daumier, French, 1846
Physical description
Scene in a barber's shop in front of a mirror. He holds the client's nose in one hand and a cut-throat razor in the other, but is distrtacted by a newspaper which he is reading with another man.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 33.5cm
  • Sheet width: 26cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 905 h.D (signed on stone)
  • LES BONS BOURGEOIS. (Top centre )
  • No. 12. (Top right )
  • Quand le journal est trop interressant. (Lower centre )
  • Chez Aubert Pl. de la Bourse, 29. (Lower left )
  • Imp. d'Aubert & Cie. (Lower right )
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1951
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.262-1951

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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