A Too Successful Experiment (Une expérience qui réussit trop bien)
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Honoré Daumier (Marseille, France, 1808–1879, Valmondois, France). A Too Successful Experiment (Une expérience qui réussit trop bien), May 23, 1853. Lithograph on newsprint, Sheet: 9 1/8 x 14 1/4 in. (23.2 x 36.2 cm) Image: 7 3/16 x 10 3/4 in. (18.3 x 27.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Shelley and David Garfinkel, 1996.225.85. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Title
A Too Successful Experiment (Une expérience qui réussit trop bien)
Date
May 23, 1853
Geography
Place made: France
Medium
Lithograph on newsprint
Classification
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/8 x 14 1/4 in. (23.2 x 36.2 cm) Image: 7 3/16 x 10 3/4 in. (18.3 x 27.3 cm)
Signatures
Signed in the stone lower left: "h.D"
Inscriptions
Top center above image: "LA FLUIDOMANIE"; top right above image: "3"; lower right in block: "502" (block number); lower left below image: "Maison Martinet r. Vivienne et r du Coq 11"; lower right below image: "Imp Ch Trinocq cour des Miracles 9 Paris"; lower center below image: "UNE EXPÉRIENCE QUI RÉUSSIT TROP BIEN/- Halte là, halte là.... voyons, il n'y aura donc plus moyen de l'arreter cette table,... elle à le diable au corps!"; verso bottom right in graphite: "1996.225.85"
Credit Line
Gift of Shelley and David Garfinkel
Accession Number
1996.225.85
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