Honoré Daumier

The axe that may cut him has not been forged yet, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

September 7, 1871

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

Dimensions

Image: 9 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (23.5 × 20.9 cm) Sheet: 11 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (28.5 × 24.2 cm)

Collection no.

57.650.279

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Honoré Daumier. The axe that may cut him has not been forged yet, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari". Honoré Daumier; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.