Accession number
PML 141321.53
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1862]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Caption continues: Ah M'sieu! l'boulanger veut attendre pour mettre au four, la solution de la question sur la boulangerie.
At head of image: Actualités.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1864 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
Plate numbered "142" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 53 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Caption continues: Ah M'sieu! l'boulanger veut attendre pour mettre au four, la solution de la question sur la boulangerie.
At head of image: Actualités.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1864 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
Plate numbered "142" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 53 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 242 x 213 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows two men seated at a table, one of whom gestures towards an empty plate as he asks a maid, who stands at right, why there is no bread.
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