- Artist: Honoré Daumier
- Artist: Edouard Bouvenne
- Publisher: Aubert & Cie.
Building castles in the air.
1846
Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph with scraping and hand coloring, Sheet: 355 × 272 mm. (14 × 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number
2001.338
Published in Le Charivari, March 9, 1847. Original color model prepared for Daumier and Chez Aubert by Edouard Bouvenne.
Frederick Mulder, London; William Ivins, New York.
Sona Johnston, BMA (Jacobs Gallery 3), "Honoré Daumier and the Art of Caricature," 19 November 2003 - 21 March 2004.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: UC: 'Les BONS BOURGEOIS.'; URC: 'No. 36.'; LWRC: 'Un chateau en Espagne.' LRQ: 'H.D.955'; 'Chez Aubert & Cie. Pl. de la Bourse.'; painted in brown around the margins: 'E Bouvenne /modele/ 16 mars/ 1847'; VERSO: graphite: BLC: 'F#4784'; BC: 'Delteil 1512 ii/II'
