Les Écuries d'Augias
September 25, 1842
Honoré Daumier
French, 1808-1879
European Art
- Maker/Artist
- Daumier, Honoré
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- Lithograph on wove paper
- Medium
- lithograph, wove, paper
- Locations
- Place made: France
- Dimensions
- Image: 10 3/4 x 8 3/16 in. (27.3 x 20.8 cm) Sheet: 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (33.7 x 26 cm)
- Inscribed
- Top center above image: "HISTOIRE ANCIENNE."; top right above image: "26"; lower center in stone: "413" (stone number); lower left below image: "Chez Bauger R. du Croissant 16."; lower center below image: "Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse"; lower right below image: "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie."; lower center below image: "LES ÉCURIES D'AUGIAS./Se faire recureur, pour un héros superbe,/C'est par Hercule, un goût difficile à chanter./Mais comme le dit un proverbe:/D'ÉGOUTS et des couleurs on ne peut disputer./Calembourg inédit de Mr. Delessert."
- Departments
- European Art
- Accession Number
- 39.543
- Credit Line
- Carll H. de Silver Fund
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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