The Daguerreotype Portrait
Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Date1844
MediumLithograph on newsprint
DimensionsUnframed: 11 15/16 × 9 3/16 in. (30.3 × 23.3 cm)
Framed: 21 3/8 × 17 3/8 in. (54.3 × 44.1 cm)
ClassificationsWORK ON PAPER
Credit LineDixon Gallery and Gardens; Gift of The Armand Hammer Foundation
Object number1987.45
DescriptionA camera stands on the left while a man in a dark coat shows an image to another man and young boy. State: ii/ii; Plate: #16Text printed below the image:
LE PORTRAIT AU DAGUÉRÉOTYPE.
- Voilà le produit du soleil...., comme c'est coloré, hein?... comme c'est chaud... et en trois secondes!..
- Eh! ben vrai.... on ne dirait pas en voyant ça que je ne suis resté que trois secondes au soleil.... on croirait plutôt que j'y ai demeuré trois ans, car j'ai l'air d'un véritable nègre... ça ne fait rien, c'est un joli portrait, et ma femme sera bien contente!....
THE DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAIT.
- Here is the product of the sun..... my... it is coloured, eh?... and looks quite warm... and all that in just three seconds!
- How very true... one would not say in seeing this that I stayed in the sun only three seconds... one would rather believe that I stayed there three years , because I look as black as a negro... never mind, it is a handsome portrait, and my wife will be content!...
Status
Not on view