Honoré Daumier

On the imperiale, "At one's feet one can observe the swarming of a human ant-hill," from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Petit Journal pour Rire

1864 or 1865

Dating

Date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

Dimensions

Image: 6 in. × 9 3/4 in. (15.3 × 24.7 cm) Sheet: 8 15/16 in. × 12 in. (22.7 × 30.5 cm)

Collection no.

62.650.386

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Honoré Daumier. On the imperiale, "At one's feet one can observe the swarming of a human ant-hill," from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Petit Journal pour Rire. Honoré Daumier; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.