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The Return of the Oyster Season. “- I could eat twelve dozens of them… just imagine that there are people who don't like oysters… - They just have no self respect…,” plate 53 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

A work made of lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper (sheet folded to form four pages, but has separated), with text added in another hand and letterpress verso (and recto when unfolded).
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  • A work made of lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper (sheet folded to form four pages, but has separated), with text added in another hand and letterpress verso (and recto when unfolded).

Date:

published March 31, 1845

Artist:

Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Title

The Return of the Oyster Season. “- I could eat twelve dozens of them… just imagine that there are people who don't like oysters… - They just have no self respect…,” plate 53 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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Published 1845

Medium

Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper (sheet folded to form four pages, but has separated), with text added in another hand and letterpress verso (and recto when unfolded)

Dimensions

Image: 23.7 × 23 cm (9 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 26.3 × 25.5 cm (10 3/8 × 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Max Adler

Reference Number

1942.161

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