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Auguste Desperet
A riddle: Several mad-looking fellows in a white cotton bonnet shaped like a pear...take a guess! It's the middle way (Enigme: Plusieurs têtes de fous dans un bonnet de coton blanc formant la poire...devinez! C'est le juste milieu) (1831)
lithograph
24.0 × 21.9 cm (image) 34.0 × 25.8 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Nicholas Draffin, 1995
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A riddle: Several mad-looking fellows in a white cotton bonnet shaped like a pear...take a guess! It's the middle way
(Enigme: Plusieurs têtes de fous dans un bonnet de coton blanc formant la poire...devinez! C'est le juste milieu)
(1831)
published in La Caricature, no. 80 by Aubert, Paris
Medium
lithograph
Measurements
24.0 × 21.9 cm (image) 34.0 × 25.8 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Nicholas Draffin, 1995
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
de Vinck 12.355
Inscription
printed in ink above image u.c.: La Caricature (Journal) / No (o in supercript above .) 80
printed in ink above image u.r.: Pl. 161.
printed in ink below image l.c.: Enigme
printed in ink below image l.l.: Plusieurs têtes de fous dans un bonnet de coton blanc formant la / poire...devinez! / c'est le juste milieu
printed in ink below image l.l.: Lith de Becquet, rue Childebert No (o in superscript above .) 9t.
printed in ink below image l.r.: On s'abonne chez Aubert, galerie vèro dodat.
inscribed in pencil (in image) l.l.-l.r.: Louis. Barthe. C: Perrier. Soult. D'argout.
Accession Number
1995.686
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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