Art, literature & history
Baissez le rideau, la farce est jouée (Lower the Curtain, the Farce is Over)
1834
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- image: 19.9 x 27.7 cm (7 13/16 x 10 7/8 in.) sheet: 27.5 x 36.1 cm (10 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.2937
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- NGA Open Access — public domainLicense details
Honoré Daumier. Baissez le rideau, la farce est jouée (Lower the Curtain, the Farce is Over). National Gallery of Art. NGA Open Access — public domain. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Baissez le rideau, la farce est jouée (Lower the Curtain, the Farce is Over) — Honoré Daumier. 1834.
Medium: lithograph.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 19.9 x 27.7 cm (7 13/16 x 10 7/8 in.) sheet: 27.5 x 36.1 cm (10 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.2937. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.