Art, literature & history
La hache qui le coupera n'est pas encore trempée
1871
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- gillotype on newsprint
- Collection no.
- 1979.49.195
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. La hache qui le coupera n'est pas encore trempée. Honoré Daumier; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
La hache qui le coupera n'est pas encore trempée — Honoré Daumier. 1871.
Medium: gillotype on newsprint.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1979.49.195. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.