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L'Artiste m'a représentée au moment où j'écris mon sombre volume... (The artist captured me as I was writing my melancholic book...), from Les Bas Bleus
L'Artiste m'a représentée au moment où j'écris mon sombre volume... (The artist captured me as I was writing my melancholic book...), from Les Bas Bleus

L'Artiste m'a représentée au moment où j'écris mon sombre volume... (The artist captured me as I was writing my melancholic book...), from Les Bas Bleus

Artist/Maker (French, 1808–1879)
Date1844
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 9 × 7 1/4 in. (22.9 × 18.4 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (36.2 × 26 cm)
Credit LineGeneral Acquisitions Fund
PortfolioLes Bas Bleus (The Bluestockings) [plate 23]
Object number1944.189.3
Status
Not on view
More Information
—L’Artiste m’a représentée au moment où j’écris mon sombre volume intitulé « Vapeurs de mon âme !... » l’œil n’est pas mal, mais le nez me semble pas suffisamment affligé!<
> —(Le monsieur à part) – Oui ... il n’est qu’affligeant ...<
> <
. —The artist captured me as I was writing my melancholic book “Sorrows of My Soul!...” the eyes are quite good but the nose isn’t distressed enough!...<
> (Gentleman, aside) —Yes, it’s just distressing...<
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Exhibition History
Satire and Sympathy: Daumier’s Human Comedy
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 6, 1980 - March 9, 1980 )
The Human Comedy: Chronicles of 19th Century France
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 6, 2013 - December 22, 2013 )
Collections
  • European
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