About the Artwork
Au Musée du Louvre; un amateur du dimanche
ca. 1865
Honoré Daumier (Artist) French, 1808-1879 Firmin Gillot (Printer) French, 1820-1872
Gillotype printed in black ink on wove paper
Image (excluding letters): 8 1/2 × 6 3/4 inches (21.6 × 17.1 cm) Sheet: 12 × 8 3/8 inches (30.5 × 21.3 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund
74.62
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Markings
Signed, on stone, lower right: h. D. Signed, on stone, lower left: Gillot sc.
Inscribed, on stone, lower right: [numerical inscription is illegible] Inscribed, above image, top edge of sheet: No. 285. PETIT JOURNAL POUR RIRE. 5 Inscribed, center top margin: AU MUSEE DU LOUVRE, par. H. DAUMIER. Inscribed, center bottom margin: UN AMATEUR DU DIMANCHE. | Ah! si j'avais tous ces vieux tableaux, comme je vendrais tous ces beaux cadres!...
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1974-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Honoré Daumier, Au Musée du Louvre; un amateur du dimanche, ca. 1865, gillotype printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund, 74.62.
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