It Is Amazing How Fat I Have Become Since My Wife Died! (C'est étonnant comme j'engraisse depuis que ma femme est morte!)
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Honoré Daumier (Marseille, France, 1808–1879, Valmondois, France). It Is Amazing How Fat I Have Become Since My Wife Died! (C'est étonnant comme j'engraisse depuis que ma femme est morte!), March 12, 1852. Lithograph on newsprint, 14 5/16 x 9 7/8 in. (36.4 x 25.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Shelley and David Garfinkel, 1996.225.16. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Title
It Is Amazing How Fat I Have Become Since My Wife Died! (C'est étonnant comme j'engraisse depuis que ma femme est morte!)
Date
March 12, 1852
Geography
Place made: France
Medium
Lithograph on newsprint
Classification
Dimensions
14 5/16 x 9 7/8 in. (36.4 x 25.1 cm)
Signatures
Lower left in the stone: "h.D."
Inscriptions
Top center above image: "TOUT CE QU'ON VOUDRA"; lower right in block: "959"; lower left below image: "Chez Pannier & Cie. rue du Croissant, 16. Paris"; lower right below image: "Imp. Ch. Trinocq, Cour des Miracles, 9. Paris"; lower center below image: "- C'est étonnant comme j'engraisse depuis que ma femme est morte!"
Credit Line
Gift of Shelley and David Garfinkel
Accession Number
1996.225.16
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