The Higher Animals

1972

Robert Doisneau French, 1912 - 1994

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About the Artwork

Title The Higher Animals

Artwork Date 1972

Artist Robert Doisneau

Life Dates 1912 - 1994

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Gelatin silver print

Dimensions Image: 10 1/2 × 15 inches (26.7 × 38.1 cm) Sheet: 11 5/8 × 15 5/8 inches (29.5 × 39.7 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Honorarium and Memorial Gifts Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 75.105

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Signed Signed on verso, lower, in black-brown ink: Robert Doisneau

Inscriptions Titled on verso, upper right, in black-brown ink: LES ANIMAUX SUPERIEURS Inscribed on verso, lower center, in pencil: Tirage en Fevrier 1972 | crowd laughing at monkey in sailor suit On facing page of folder encasing photo, in black ink: L'humor est souvent le meilleur abri on peut venir se cacher le temoin d'un spectacle trop tendre ou trop cruel. | Robert Doisneau Also on facing page, in black ink: [an English translation of the title (not by the artist)] Written in black ink on facing page of folder encasing photo: L'humor est souvent le meilleur abri on peut venir se cacher le temoin d'un spectacle trop tendre ou trop cruel. Robert Doisneau (Translation: Humor is often the best hiding place for the man who finds himself faced with a sight too tender or too cruel)

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(John M. Booth, Birmingham, Michigan, USA);
1975-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Sol

Hans Sebald Beham

ca. 1539

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