Honoré Daumier
1854, 16 March
UN AMATEUR - Mais quel est donc ce tableau…., on n'y voit rien que du noir?… [A COLLECTOR: - But what's this painting all about?… I don't see anything but black!. ]

Lithograph
Brandeis University Libraries, Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department
Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis University Libraries , LD3129
 
UN AMATEUR - Mais quel est donc ce tableau…., on n'y voit rien que du noir?…
LE CRIEUR. - C'est l'empereur Soulouque tiré au daguerréotype.
 
A COLLECTOR: - But what's this painting all about?… I don't see anything but black!.
Auctioneer:- It's the emperor Soulouque, photographed in Daguerreotype.
 
From the series: La Salle des Ventes, plate 1.
Originally published in "le Charivari" (16 March 1854).
 
The Daumier Register by Lilian and Dieter Noack, www.daumier-register.org, DR Number: 3129, LD Number: 3129, HD Number: 2513.
 
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