Honoré Daumier
“Une femme comme moi…remettre un bouton?...vous êtes fou!...” (“A woman like me...sew a button?...you’re crazy!...”), from the series Les Bas bleus
1844
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Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808–1879)
- Title “Une femme comme moi…remettre un bouton?...vous êtes fou!...” (“A woman like me...sew a button?...you’re crazy!...”), from the series Les Bas bleus
- Date 1844
- Medium Lithograph
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Dimensions
unframed | 11 1/2 x 8 in.
- Credit line University acquisition, 1965
- Object number WU 4211
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Technique
lithography
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Work type
print
caricature
Women's Work, Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship exhibition
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 04/23/2021 - 08/01/2021
Humor, Irony, and Satire: Strategies of Critique in Modern Art and Culture
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/21/2010 - 07/18/2010
The Political Eye: Nineteenth-Century French Caricature and the Mass Media
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/30/2009 - 04/27/2009
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