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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M20861
People
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, French (Marseille, France 1808-1879 Valmondois, France)
Title
Taking Advantage of the Right Moment, convincing the Chinese to accept being Paid Two Hundred Millions in Opium
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Profitant de la circonstance, pour engager les Chinois à se payer pour deux cent millions d'opium...
Series/Book Title: En Chine ("Le Charivari," 29 December 1858)
Former Title: Profiting by circumstances to engage the Chinese to treat themselves to 200 millions of opium.
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1858
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/190323

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph on cream wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 29.8 × 28.6 cm (11 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.)
image: 21.7 × 26 cm (8 9/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper left, black ink: [illegible text] 1858
  • inscription: upper center: EN CHINE.
  • inscription: upper right, above image: 6
  • inscription: below image, lower left: Maison Martinet, 172, r Rivoli et 41, r. Vivienne
  • inscription: lower right, below image: Lith. Destouches, [illegible], Paradis, [illegible] Paris
  • inscription: lower center, below image: Profitant de la circonstance, pour engager les Chinois a se payer pour deux cent millions d'opium...
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: C. D. 3110
  • inscription: lower left, in image: hD

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Frances L. Hofer, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
Del. 3110, H.D. 1684

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Object Number
M20861
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

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