From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections TheAnimal lover. The supreme happiness of the Animal lover is to make at home a little menagerie of his own in which to pass his life.

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: M5170
People: Honoré-Victorin Daumier, French (Marseille, France 1808-1879 Valmondois, France)
Title: TheAnimal lover. The supreme happiness of the Animal lover is to make at home a little menagerie of his own in which to pass his life.
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Monomanes, in Le Charivari, 5 November 1840
Original Language Title: Le Bêtophile. Le bonheur suprême du Bêtophile....
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1840
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/267557

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 31.7 x 21.4 cm (12 1/2 x 8 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: h.D.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: ii
Standard Reference Number: Del. 858

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of E. Dudley James
Accession Year: 1932
Object Number: M5170
Division: European and American Art
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