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Collections

Honoré Daumier
Recherche infructueuse de la planète Leverrier

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Lithograph from the series 'Les Bons Bourgeois,' showing two heavyset figures in 19th-century dress tilting their heads back to gaze at a star-filled night sky, rendered in loose, caricature-style crayon strokes
Artist or Maker
Honoré Daumier
Title
Recherche infructueuse de la planète Leverrier
Place Made
France
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 9 3/8 in. (33.66 × 23.81 cm) Image: 9 7/8 × 8 3/4 in. (25.08 × 22.23 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Talpis
Accession Number
54.71.121
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustré: Daumier, Vols 20-29. Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1906-1926.