Honoré Daumier

Apelles and Campaste. Aware that Apelles was wasting away with love Alexander gave him Campeste and above the first art deal ever now was struck girlfriend against sculpture, oh what luck! (From Art and the Antique, a poetic essay by M. Cavé), plate 36(37) from Histoire Ancienne

published November 30, 1842

Dating
Exact year
Held at
Art Institute of Chicago
Medium
Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso
Dimensions
Image: 24 × 19.8 cm (9 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 35.9 × 24.7 cm (14 3/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
Collection no.
1942.171
Attribution
By the artist

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago

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