You Sniff the Merchandise...Before Buying It (On flaire la marchandise...avant de la mécaniser!...)
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Honoré Daumier (Marseille, France, 1808–1879, Valmondois, France). You Sniff the Merchandise...Before Buying It (On flaire la marchandise...avant de la mécaniser!...), July 27, 1842. Lithograph on newsprint, Sheet: 9 13/16 x 13 13/16 in. (24.9 x 35.1 cm) Image: 6 3/8 x 8 13/16 in. (16.2 x 22.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Shelley and David Garfinkel, 1996.225.53. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Artist
Title
You Sniff the Merchandise...Before Buying It (On flaire la marchandise...avant de la mécaniser!...)
Date
July 27, 1842
Geography
Place made: France
Medium
Lithograph on newsprint
Classification
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 13/16 x 13 13/16 in. (24.9 x 35.1 cm) Image: 6 3/8 x 8 13/16 in. (16.2 x 22.4 cm)
Signatures
Signed in the stone lower left: "h.D."
Inscriptions
Top center above image: "TYPES PARISIENS."; top right above image: "32."; lower left below image: "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie."; lower right below image: "Chez Banger R. du Croissant 16"; lower center below image: "ON FLAIRE LA MARCHANDISE...AVANT DE LA MECANISER!...."; Recto lower right in graphite: "jop"; verso bottom right in graphite: "1996.225.53"
Credit Line
Gift of Shelley and David Garfinkel
Accession Number
1996.225.53
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