{ "core": { "objectID": 42716, "objectNumber": "75.105", "primaryTitle": "The Higher Animals", "objectName": "gelatin silver print", "dated": "1972", "classification": "Photographs", "department": "Prints, Drawings & Photographs", "medium": "gelatin silver print", "dimensions": "Image: 10 1/2 × 15 inches (26.7 × 38.1 cm)\r\nSheet: 11 5/8 × 15 5/8 inches (29.5 × 39.7 cm)" }, "provenance": { "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase, Honorarium and Memorial Gifts Fund ", "provenance": "(John M. Booth, Birmingham, Michigan, USA);\r\n1975-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)", "signed": "Signed on verso, lower, in black-brown ink: Robert Doisneau ", "inscribed": "Titled on verso, upper right, in black-brown ink: LES ANIMAUX SUPERIEURS\r\nInscribed on verso, lower center, in pencil: Tirage en Fevrier 1972 | crowd laughing at monkey in sailor suit\r\nOn 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\r\nAlso 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)", "markings": "" }, "creators": [ { "displayName": "Robert Doisneau", "role": "Artist", "nationality": "French", "bio": "French, 1912 - 1994" } ], "rights": [ { "type": "Copyright Not Evaluated", "copyright": "", "creditLineRepro": "Robert Doisneau, The Higher Animals, 1972, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Honorarium and Memorial Gifts Fund, 75.105." } ], "media": { "primary": { "filename": "75.105-d1-2017-01-09.tif", "width": 4791, "height": 3577, "shareURL": "https://dia.widen.net/content/mlu2wqwmhp/jpeg/75.105-d1-2017-01-09.jpeg?w=2000&keep=c&crop=yes&color=cccccc&quality=80&u=u3bnol", "originalURL": "https://dia.widen.net/content/mlu2wqwmhp/original/75.105-d1-2017-01-09.tif?u=u3bnol&download=true" } }, "terms": [ { "name": "humor", "type": "subject" }, { "name": "people", "type": "subject" }, { "name": "gelatin silver process", "type": "technique" }, { "name": "photographic paper", "type": "support" }, { "name": "gelatin silver print", "type": "work type" }, { "name": "Paris", "type": "place depicted" }, { "name": "monkey", "type": "subject" } ], "source": { "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts", "objectURL": "https://dia.org/collection/42716" } }