Untitled (The public, my good man, is stupid)
Series TitleCaricaturana (Les Cent Robert Macaire)
Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Date1836-1838
MediumHand-colored lithograph
DimensionsApproximate: 9 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches (23.97 x 20.64 cm)
Credit LineGift in memory of Mrs. Dora McGreevy from the Dora McGreevy Memorial Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Milton McGreevy through the Westport Fund
Object numberF68-7/70
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition History[No known exhibitions at this time]
With Zeitlin and Ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles, by February 8, 1968;
Purchased from Zeitlin and Ver Brugge Booksellers by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1968.
Loÿs Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. 21 (Paris: 1925), no. 425 I/II, unpaginated, (repro.), as Le public, mon cher…est stupide….
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 295-96, as Caricaturana (Les Cent Robert Macaire): Untitled (The public, my good man, is stupid).
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