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“- Hello, neighbour... what was all this yelling about... did you see the comet? - I thought I had seen it over there... but then it was just the fire from a chimney... this time we got off with no more than a fright,” plate 3 from La Cométe De 1857
1857
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.6 × 25.1 cm (7 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.); Sheet: 27.2 × 35.6 cm (10 3/4 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1955.1163
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “- Hello, neighbour... what was all this yelling about... did you see the comet? - I thought I had seen it over there... but then it was just the fire from a chimney... this time we got off with no more than a fright,” plate 3 from La Cométe De 1857. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“- Hello, neighbour... what was all this yelling about... did you see the comet? - I thought I had seen it over there... but then it was just the fire from a chimney... this time we got off with no more than a fright,” plate 3 from La Cométe De 1857 — Honoré Daumier. 1857.
Medium: Lithograph on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 19.6 × 25.1 cm (7 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.); Sheet: 27.2 × 35.6 cm (10 3/4 × 14 1/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.