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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.209
People
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, French (Marseille, France 1808-1879 Valmondois, France)
Title
The Jewel Box Hoax
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Les Carottes, D. 1266
Original Language Title: Carotte de l’écrin
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/364399

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph on off-white wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 22.5 × 27.2 cm (8 7/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
sheet: 35.6 × 27.1 cm (14 × 10 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: top, above image, brown ink: Les Carottes / Les Dan bleu [struckthrough]
  • inscription: upper right, brown ink: No 7
  • inscription: lower left, in stone: 593
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: 1266
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: D. 1266
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, black ink: R.G-D [in oval] [not in Lugt, mark of René Gaston-Dreyfus]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, black ink: H. M. P. [in oval] [Lugt 5021, mark of Henri Marie Petiet]
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 1266
  • inscription: bottom, below image, brown ink: Carotte de l'écrin / Concevez cous ange! Madame d. Courcelles qui dit que vous êtes un avare ah! j'en suis indignée: elle prétend / que dans le monde on vous [illegible; struck through] vous traite de / grigou [underlined] qu'on trouve inouï que je n'aie pas de diamans / comme si j'avais besoin de cela pour vous adorer!
  • inscription: verso, brown ink: M. Jaimes / 44 = e[?] = de / Bondy / Teneé [?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
René Gaston-Dreyfus (1886-1969). Henri Marie Petiet (1894-1980), Paris (Lugt 5031). [Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints and Drawings, Dallas, 2013], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2019

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
Delteil 1266

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.209
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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