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Pauvres moutons Ah! Vous avez beau faire...toujours on vous tondra
1830
Honoré Daumier (Artist) French, 1808-1879 Delaunois (Printer) French
Lithograph printed in black ink, colored by hand on wove paper
Image (excluding letters): 7 3/4 × 12 1/4 inches (19.7 × 31.1 cm) Sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 7/8 inches (25.7 × 35.2 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
71.54
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, on stone, lower left of image: h. Daumier
Inscribed, lower left: Au Magasin de Caricatures. d' Aubert, Galerie Vero-dodat Inscribed, lower right: Lith. de Delaunois. Inscribed, center bottom margin: Pauvres moutons ah! vous avez beau faire. | Tourjours on vous tondra.
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1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Honoré Daumier, Pauvres moutons Ah! Vous avez beau faire...toujours on vous tondra, 1830, lithograph printed in black ink, colored by hand on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 71.54.
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