About This Artwork

Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879

“- Hey, Baptiste, what are these two shouting for the last hour… I am sure they are fighting! - Oh no, they make such funny movements, that's hilarious… I've got it: the are rehearsing a tragedy which they will perform at the party of Madame Follemèche… Lucky the bourgeois who can afford with his income to enjoy such entertainments… the man is almost as funny as the clown of the Folies-Nouvelles!,” plate 11 from Les Comédiens De Société, 1858

Lithograph in black on white wove paper
201 x 253 mm (image); 253 x 354 mm (sheet)
William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment, 1953.589a

Daumier Register 3041; Delteil 3041 II/II; Hazard-Delteil 1176