Our Exhibitions

With the change of the season comes the time to sit by the fire and read a good book or to enjoy newspaper articles. Look through the slide show about reading in Daumier's time.

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show on READING

For more information on these prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on READING / BOOKS / BOOK DEALERS / NEWSPAPER / JOURNALISM / PRESS LAWS etc. when searching by themes.

(October 10, 2006)

Right or wrong - I am the captain!

It's not always easy to ride a boat, ship or nutshell. But in Daumier's eyes most captains are trying to make the best of a situation. Enjoy the exhibition and navigate the torrential waters of this boat-tour.

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show BOATS, SHIPS, BARGES

For more information on these prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on BOATS (ROWING, SAILING) / MARINE / NAVIGATION / SAILORS / SEA / SEINE / TRAVELS / SUMMERTIME etc. when searching by themes.

(September 1, 2006)

Most of us love animals, but fear seems always to be part of this love. Have a look at some of the awkward situations created by Daumier.

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show OUR BELOVED ANIMALS

For more information on these prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on ANIMALS / Dogs / Cats / Birds / Insects / Zoo etc. when searching by themes.

(June 1, 2006)

Sport is fun - apparently not always. Have a look at Daumier's approach to Sports and physical exercise and feel the pain of some unlucky sportsmen...

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show SPORTS - NOT ALWAYS FUN

For more information on each of the prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on SPORTS / Swimming / Horseback Riding / Fencing / Boxing / Mishaps / Accidents etc. when searching by themes.

(May 1, 2006)

MUSIC! We all love it, and musicians are all experts. All?? Looking at this slide show you can almost hear the sounds - the nice ones as well as the cacophonies. With Daumier, music has many aspects and we see scenes that we all know. Enjoy the exhibition while listening to your favorite CD in the background...

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show EVERYBODY LOVES MUSIC

For more information on each of the prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on MUSIC / Concert / Opera / Musical Instruments / Spectators, Theater etc. when searching by themes.

(April 1, 2006)

Enjoy the spring with Daumier!

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show SPRING - LOVE IS IN THE AIR

For more information on each of the prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on LOVE / Flowers / Plants / Spring / Nature etc. when searching by themes.

(March 1, 2006)

As we all know, carnival is the crazy time of the year. Have a look how Daumier experienced it in the 1860's from a political as well as entertaining viewpoint - and as usual certain similarities to existing persons are purely coincidental.

Enjoy the carnival season with Daumier!

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show CARNIVAL - MASKS - COSTUMES

For more information on each of the prints have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on CARNIVAL / Costumes / Theater / Festivities, Parties etc. when searching by themes.

(February 1, 2006)

Whether it was a famous politician or an ordinary citizen - hunting accidents always happened, also in Daumier's time. See what happened in the 1850s when a hunter shot his companion (or the dog of his companion) and you'll find out that Cheney's mishap is nothing new!

This exhibition can only be seen for a limited time (Feb. 13 to 23, 2006)

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show HUNTING-ACCIDENTS

(February 13, 2006)

How could Daumier possibly resist depicting the fine human weaknesses which so easily become visible when the hunting season starts. Not having been a huntsman himself, he took a generous portion of artistic liberties: His hunters usually are “gentleman-hunters” from the city who are getting easily scared by an overly aggressive rabbit. A milk cow shows all the attributes of a vicious fighting bull, and the gun powder usually gets wet in the wrong moment. The hunter’s difficulties in getting up before sunrise is being shown here as well as his missed hunting talent, resulting in having to purchase a hare from the local farmer.

We hope you will enjoy the new exhibition!

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show DAUMIER AND THE OPENING OF THE HUNTING SEASON

For more information on each of the prints and translation of the texts have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on HUNTING / Hunting Horn / Animals / Rabbits etc. when searching by themes.

(January 1, 2006)

December, the festive season - as seen by Daumier. When looking at our December exhibition you will find out how little difference there is between celebrating then and now. The Parisians enjoyed endless parties, ate too much, danced too long, drank too much. Sounds like December nowadays. Partying took place on all levels of society: in the family, in the army, by the river-boat captains and, of course at the “Society of Moderation” where the 87th toast was brought out simply to celebrate the existence of this organisation.

You will again have the opportunity to appreciate Daumier's caricatures of his fellow Frenchmen, sometimes tender, at other times to the point... but not being an enemy of a few glasses of wine himself, he was by no means criticizing celebrations and parties.

Best wishes for the festive Season and Happy New Year!

Enjoy the slide show!

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show DECEMBER - A MONTH OF PARTIES!

For more information on each of the prints and translation of the texts have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on FESTIVITIES & PARTIES / Fireworks / Drinking / Eating / Country Fair etc. when searching by themes.

(December 1, 2005)

Join us at the theater and see how Daumier, who was an ardent admirer of the performing arts, saw the “theater folks”. Lean back in your seat when the lights go out and watch the slide show: the poor actor entering the theater through the stage entrance on a rainy evening, munching his sparse evening meal consisting of some French fries and thinking about his upcoming role as a great seducer and powerful prince. We also see the great Greek King Agamemnon enjoying a game of poker with Clytemnestra during a short intermission, before she will kill him in his bath tub just minutes later. El Cid and Rodrigue (the faint-hearted one) have probably never before been shown in such a “ridiculous” manner. No one can escape Daumier’s ironic but never offensive drawing pen.

Enjoy your visit to the theater with Daumier!

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show DAUMIER AND THE THEATER.

For more information on each of the prints and translation of the texts have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints in the DAUMIER REGISTER on THEATER / Actors / Spectators / Opera / Poetry etc. when searching by themes.

(November 1, 2005)

October is the month of wine harvest. How could Daumier possibly resist drawing his delightful caricatures about wine drinking and wine harvest. He introduces us to the hard working wine farmer sweating in the vineyard and to the city dweller who never in his life imagined the back braking work which was needed to produce his cherished Bordeaux. But he also shows us some shady wine merchants “improving” the quality of the wine by adding sugar or “stretching” it by thinning it down with water from the nearby river.

Sit back with a glass of wine and enjoy the exhibition.

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show THE WINE SEASON.

For more information on each of the prints and translation of the texts have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on WINE / Wine harvest / Wine commerce / Drinking / Restaurants etc. when searching by themes.

(October 1, 2005)

Once again the nightmare for many hopeful and struggling students is starting: the month of September - synonymous for the beginning of the much dreaded school term. Have a look at our new exhibition and find out how Daumier suffered with the students, not forgetting that our little brats occasionally succeed to be quite vicious when defending their position against teachers or parents. The other side of the coin shows a proud father thriving in the joys that his offspring had won a cherished prize for scholastic excellence such as cleanliness or staying awake during math-lessons. We also feel deeply with the drawing instructor and his fruitless endeavour to make a Leonardo out of a an utterly untalented child.

We hope you will enjoy the new exhibition.

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show LA RENTRÉE - BACK TO SCHOOL.

For more information on each of the prints and translation of the texts have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER.

There you can see many more Daumier prints on SCHOOL / Schoolchildren / Teachers / Professors / Sports etc. when searching by themes.

(September 1, 2005)

Summertime is vacation time... especially in France. Nowadays like 150 years ago, Parisians, in a concerted effort of getting out of town, will rush to the seaside or to the public baths. At these resorts they eventually and quite by chance will meet again the same people they usually encounter in the city. The difference however is the relaxation, fresh air and clean water enjoyed by all of these happy vacationers in a truly collective summer experience of rare intimacy.

Have a look at our Great Summer Exhibition of Daumier lithographs, which as always, should not be taken too serious! For those of you who remained behind in the big cities, do not despair: enjoy the solitude and calm of a hot but empty town!

THIS WAY TO ENTER the slide show SUMMERTIME!

For more information on each of the prints and translation of the texts have a look at the DAUMIER REGISTER. There you can see many more Daumier prints on SUMMERTIME / Summer / Swimming / Sports etc. when searching by themes.

(August 13, 2005)

Isn’t it amazing that with the help of collectors and museum curators one occasionally is fortunate enough to find prints unknown to most Daumier amateurs? For the first time we are pleased to enclose in this special advance edition to the upcoming DAUMIER REGISTER, a list of lithographs which have either not been published or not photographed by Delteil and/or in other work catalogues. Since some of them were already known to Provost and Hazard, we are adding together with the Daumier Register Number the respective Hazard or Provost numbers, where available. Provost used “ bis” additions in order to place the prints in a time-relation to Delteil’s numbers.

Many of these prints we were able to photograph, but for a number of them, photographs are unfortunately not yet available. We invite you to scrutinize your own collections and possibly supply missing photography. At the end of the list you will find some photos not recorded in the Delteil catalogue.

All these findings are of course also documented in the DAUMIER REGISTER©, together with hundreds of corrections of dates and additions of states, previously not recorded by Hazard or by Delteil. Please click here to go directly to the DAUMIER REGISTER©, the new work catalogue on Daumier’s lithographic work on the internet.

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LIST OF UNPUBLISHED OR UNRECORDED DAUMIER PRINTS (not in L.D.)

1.

Daumier Register N° DR 3956

Hazard N° HD 3744

Un omnibus en temps de grippe

ACTUALITÉS N° 514

Charivari, 7. April 1858

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2.

Daumier Register N° DR 3957

Hazard Delteil N° HD 2908

Surveillant la Commission de Surveillance

ACTUALITÉS N° 209

Charivari, 23. Sept. 1851

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3.

Daumier Register N° DR 3958

Hazard Delteil N° HD 3543

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!....

ACTUALITÉS N° 186

Charivari, 22. Jan. 1849

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4.

Daumier Register N° DR3959

Hazard Delteil N° HD 3192

- Ah! ça mais on ne voit rien dans votre Lanterne magique?

- Un peu de patience! le rideau n'est pas encore levé.

ACTUALITÉS N° 87

Charivari, 25. May 1866

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5.

Daumier Register N° DR 3960

Hazard Delteil N° HD 3279

Croyez-moi! prenez mon bras. Après avoir été enchainée depuis si longtemps, vous ne seriez pas assez forte pour marcher seule.

ACTUALITÉS N° 181

Charivari, 22. Sept. 1866

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6.

Daumier Register N° DR 3961

Grande chaumière de 1841. Types d'après nature.

1841 ( ?)

(no photo available)

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7.

Daumier Register N° DR 3962

La Veuve en Consultation

Les Gens de Justice N° 40

Oct. 1846

Only state : avant la lettre

(Photo: Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)

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8.

Daumier Register N°DR 3963

Le commerce est mort, les partis l'ont tué, que voulez-vous qu'il fît contre eux trois? Qu'il mourût... qu'il mourût...!

2. Oct. 1851

Only state : avant la lettre

(Photo Passeron Collection)

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9.

Daumier Register N° DR 3964

Hazard Delteil N° HD 3154

EN IRLANDE.

Comment!... encore un faux Stéphens, mais c'est le douzième depuis ce matin.

ACTUALITÉS N° 49

Charivari, 17. March 1866

Three states

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10.

Daumier Register N° DR 3965

Hazard Delteil N° HD 3276

Les augures de la diplomatie n'osant ouvrir l'oiseau-Prussien pour savoir à quoi s'en tenir.

ACTUALITÉS N° 179

Charivari, 3. Sept. 1867

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11.

Daumier Register N° DR 3966

Hazard Delteil N° HD 3362

Une garde-malade un peu naïve

ACTUALITÉS N° 283

Charivari, 14. Jan. 1868

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12.

Daumier Register N° DR 3967

Suffrage universel - Suffrage restreint

ACTUALITÉS

August 1851

(Photo BNF, Paris)

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13.

Daumier Register N° DR 3968

Hazard Delteil N° HD 2784

UN VIEIL ENTÊTÉ.

Monsieur le Greffier, pourriez vous avoir la bonté de m'apprendre quand on punira l'individu qui, place du Hâvre m'a mis l'œil dans l'état où vous voyez.

Mais mossieu, il est inconcevable que vous persistiez à porter un bandeau pareil quand on vous a prouvé que personne n'avait reçu des coups de poing place du Hâvre...... savez-vous que les ex-membres de la Société du Dix Décembre, auraient le droit de vous demander des dommages intérets pour le tort que vous pouvez porter à leur réputation!

ACTUALITÉS N° 37

Charivari, 19. Dec. 1850

Two states

(Photo Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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14.

Daumier Register N° DR 3969

Hazard Delteil N° HD 3060

Les giboulées de Mars, dans le Maroc.

ACTUALITÉS N° 150

Charivari, 16. March 1860

Two states

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15.

Daumier Register N° DR 3970

Cavalier montrant des pétards

Around 1864

Only state : avant la lettre

(Photo Ingelheim Cat. 3956bis)

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16.

Daumier Register N° DR 3971

Magicien

Around 1864

Only state : avant la lettre

(Photo Ingelheim Cat. 3956ter)

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17.

Daumier Register N° DR 3972

La Consultation, La Lecture du Jugement

Around 1848

Only state : avant la lettre

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18.

Daumier Register N° DR 3973

Un député descendant de la tribune

LES REPRÉSENTANS REPRÉSENTÉS

Around 1849-1850

Only state : avant la lettre

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19.

Daumier Register N° DR 3974

Dernier coup porté par les Chrstinos à l'armée Carliste.

Registered 5.10.1839 with Archives Nationales in Paris.

5. Oct. 1839

(no photo available)

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20.

Daumier Register N° DR 3975

Principautés, prenez garde à vous! La Prusse et l'Autriche à l'affût.

ACTUALITÉS N° 72

August 1866

Two states

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21.

Daumier Register N° DR 3976

Oui, madame, je suis tout dévoué à notre auguste reine, est.... quelqu'uns misérables centaines de mille francs. Je me fait tout de le retablir le trone. Quels sont vos moyens. Mes Moyens? J'en suis rempli de moyens! J'ai des amis, des journaux aussi toute la famille des Macaire se déclare pour lui. Jamais Prince n'aura élévé une plus innombrable armée!!...

Registered 1.12.1848 with Archives Nationales in Paris.

(no photo available)

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22.

Daumier Register N° DR 3977

Eh ben! excusez, c'est le boulanger à présent qu'on voudrait mettre dans le pétrin! Nous oter le poids de tolérance, c'est intolérable il faut qu'ils nous croyent de bonne paté; jespère bien que leur ordonnance fera four.

Registered 5. 12. 1840 with Archives Nationales in Paris.

(no photo available)

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23.

Daumier Register N° DR 3978

Hanovre et Schleswig

ACTUALITÉS

Around 1867

(no photo available)

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24.

Daumier Register N° DR 3979

La Bombe

Around Feb 1871

(no photo available)

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25.

Daumier Register N° DR 3980

Une Idole sur son piédestal.

Around 1872. This gillotage was meant for publication in the Journal Amusant. In the Dreyfus collection the print had been erroneously attributed to LD 3952. It is an “avant la lettre” on papier mince. The text was added on a separate sheet of paper: „Une idole sur son piédestal“.

(Photo Dreyfus catalogue)

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26.

Daumier Register N° DR 3981

Dumant

Around 1848

(no photo available)

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27.

Daumier Register N° DR 3982

Cours de droit constitutionnel du professeur Rossé

Charivari, 26. Dec. 1834

(Photo Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA)

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28.

Daumier Register N° DR 3983

Plaisir non partagé

Around 1844

(no photo available)

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29.

Daumier Register N° DR 3984

Ingelheim Cat. N° 1188ter

Une première lecture

LES BEAUX JOURS DE LA VIE.

14. Aug. 1844

(no photo available)

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30.

Daumier Register N° DR 3985

M. Chaix d'Est Angel, l'avocat de l'accusé

(Affaire la Roncière)

Charivari, 15. July 1835

new attribution acc. to Ramus & Daumier Register

(Photo Ramus Coll. USA)

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31.

Daumier Register N° DR 3986

Don Quichotte et Sancho Pansa

1953, printer Mourlot

(Photo Passeron Collection)

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32.

Daumier Register N° DR 3987

Le Chasseur Parisien. Etre bénin, inoffensif par excellence, Chasseur diligent, partant après l'aurore, tuant le temps et pas autre chose. Son fusil n'est pas moins philantrope, pas moins fidèle observateur du 4ème commandement. Cette espèce de chasse armée, equivalent à la paix armée.

Registered 31.12.1840 with the Archive Nationale.

CROQUIS PARISIENS, - par H. Daumier.

31. Dec. 1840

(no photo available)

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33.

Daumier Register N° DR 3988

Un petit jeu de société avec cette légende: Mouton vole, chacon (?) vole, notaire vole! ah! un gage M. Théophile, un gage.

Vous n'avez pas levé le doigt au notaire.. et pourtant aujourd'hui jusqu'au enfant de sept ans tous le monde sait qu'on notaire vole parfaitement.

Registered 17.2.1842 with the Archives Nationales in Paris

ACTUALITÉS

17. Feb. 1842 In Album de l’An ( ?)

(no photo available)

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34.

Daumier Register N° DR 3989

Laissez moi mon cher, je vais retirer mes fonds de chez mon notaire. J'y vole d'en etre volé!

ACTUALITÉS

Registered 17.2.1842 with the Archives Nationales in Paris

(no photo available)

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35.

Daumier Register N° DR 3991

Lassenaire Condamné

Around 18. Nov. 1835

(no photo available)

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36.

Daumier Register N° DR 3992

Marrast

1848/49

(no photo available)

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37.

Daumier Register N° DR 3994

La République et la France abattue

ACTUALITÉS

1871 ?

(Photo C.G.Boerner, New York, NY)

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38.

Daumier Register N° DR 3995

Deux hommes dans les ruines

1856

(Photo Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)

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39.

Daumier Register N° DR 3996

Le Chat, la belette et le petit lapin (Fable.) --

Newly attributed to Daumier by the Daumier Register. (Details in the Daumier Register)

La Caricature Pl. 489 N°. 235

7. May 1835

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40.

Daumier Register N° DR 3997

Eloquence Fulchironne.

Réponse péremptoire des deputés croupions, aux argumens, aux chiffres et généralement à toutes les bonnes raisons de toutes les oppositions possibles.

Newly attributed to Daumier by the Daumier Register. (Details in the Daumier Register)

La Caricature Pl. 491 nr. 236

14. May, 1835

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41.

Daumier Register N° DR 3998

Grand Enterrement du gros Constitutionnel décédé en son hôtel rue Monmartre, N° 121., enface de l'apothocaire et du M.d de Brioches. Cet infortuné vieillard tombé, après la révolution de Juillet, dans l'enfance et le philippisme fut attaqué de tous fléaux qui marquèrent ce temps de calamités publiques, la croix dite d'honneur, la pognée de main, la truffe ministérielle enfin, il mourut frappé de l'affreux désabonnement et s'éteignit dans les bras de ses actionnaires. St. Albin ( le Rousselin de 93) Chevassus (jadis attaché à la personne de M. de Stael), Jay (ancien censeur), Etienne (ancien censeur) que la terre te soit légère,ô naif Constitutionnel!....De profundis.

Newly attributed to Daumier by the Daumier Register (small part of the print). Details to follow in the Daumier Register.

Joint work with Grandville and Benjamin

La Caricature Pl.351/352 N° 167

16. Jan. 1834

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42.

Daumier Register N° DR 3999

Félix Pyat (en buste)

Galerie de la Presse, de la Littérature et des Beaux-arts

Only state : avant la lettre

Around1840

(no photo available)

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43.

Daumier Register N° DR 4000

Un représentant, chapeau à la main

LES REPRÉSENTANS REPRÉSENTÉS

Around 1850

(no photo available)

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44.

Daumier Register N° DR 4001

Comte d'Argout

Photo from Gobin’s book „Daumier Sculpteur“, page nr 226

ex Marcel Lecomte Collection, Paris

Around 1833

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45.

Daumier Register N° DR 5399 (future woodcut edition of the Daumier-Register)

Le Rentier

Wood engraving. The original woodblock can be seen at the

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, first published in 1976

Photo : Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Saint-Denis (PROVOST Collection)

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46.

Daumier Register N° DR 4002

Miniature Robert Macaire

Published in 1830-1840 by Pobuda as well as by Aubert

Photo Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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47.

Daumier Register N° DR 0018

Pauvres moutons ah! vous aurez beau faire.Toujours on vous tondra.

Small size version of LD 18, published on December 15, 1832 in LE CHARIVARI

Photo Noack Collection

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48.

Daumier Register N° DR 0023

UN HÉROS DE JUILLET, Mai 1831.

Small size version of LD 18, published on December 15, 1832 in LE CHARIVARI

Photo Noack Collection

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49.

Daumier Register N° DR 0024

Monseigneur s'ils persistent nous mettrons Paris en état de siege.

Small size version of LD 18, published on December 15, 1832 in LE CHARIVARI

Photo Noack Collection

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50.

Daumier Register N° DR 0039

Les Blanchisseurs.

Le bleu s'en va mais ce diable de rouge tient comme du sang.

Small size version of LD 18, published on December 15, 1832 in LE CHARIVARI

Photo Noack Collection

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PHOTOGRAPHS NOT RECORDED IN DELTEIL or other work catalogues:

LD 2071 (Dreyfus catalogue)

LD 2074 (Dreyfus catalogue)

LD 2075 (Rosenwald collection, National Gallery Washington)

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Enjoy a walk through our Daumier Museum. Our present exhibition shows Daumier's lawyers from "Les Gens de Justice" as well as from many other series. Many of them are well known caricatures, others may be unknown to you. We are showing here on purpose pictures of a print quality which can be found on the market and with which every collector is familiar. It was not our intention to present a "coffee table book". Sit back and smile at the various aspects captured so masterfully by Honoré Daumier.

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