About the work

This work by Honoré-Victorin Daumier, titled Ayant Fait Partie des Muscadins sous le Directoire, is from Daumier’s series Tout Ce Qu’on Voudra, or “Anything You Want”. The title is somewhat difficult to translate because of its use of a colloquialisms, but it might be translated as “Former Dandies from the Time of the Directorate”.

Like Daumier’s “Les bons bourgeois” series, the prints of Tout Ce Qu’on Voudra offer pensive observations of life, as in this work in which an elderly couple remembers their youth, perhaps recalling when they were considered the young rebels.

This illustration was published in the news publication Le Charivari. The Tout Ce Qu’on Voudra series consisted of 94 lithographs published between March 28, 1847 and November 30, 1852 in Le Charivari. This lithograph was printed on June 13, 1847.

Other copies of this print are held in the Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection in Los Angeles, the Art Institute of Chicago, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Carnavalet Museum, History of Paris (Inv. No. G.2640), Brandeis University Libraries, Cleveland Museum of Art, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Kunsthaus Zürich, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Access. No. 22.61.51), the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and many others.

Attributes	Value
Medium	Intaglio, Lithograph, Print
Date	1800-1850
Framing	Custom framed and matted using conservation materials
Signing, Dating, and Titling	Signed and titled by the artist en recto on bottom, Signed in the plate
Condition	Excellent Condition
Type	Old Etchings

Medium:

Lithograph

Paper:

Glossy white wove paper, as printed in Le Charivari.

Publisher:

Aaron Martinet (French, 1762–1841), publisher of Le Charivari

Printer:

Chez Aubert, Pl de la Bourse, Paris

Date:

June 13, 1847

Signature:

Signed by the artist in the plate en recto lower left. The stone number (1017) stated in the plate en recto lower right. The plate number (7) stated in the plate en recto upper right. The name and address of the publisher en recto lower left under the image. The name and address of the printer of the lithograph en recto lower right under the image.

Framing:

This work is custom matted and framed in a solid cherry frame behind Tru Vue 99% UV-Filtering art glass. Framed with all conservation and archival materials.

Condition:

Excellent condition. Well-inked and crisp lines. With press marks from verso visible in the image, as published. Overall, a beautifully-printed work in superb condition with nothing to apologize for. This print, more than 160 years old, appears to be brand new.

Framed Size:

23.2 in. (h) x 17.375 in. (w) x 1.25 in. (d)

Sheet Size:

10.375 in. (h) x 14.675 in. (w)

Window Size:

15.75 in. (h) x 10.675 in. (w)

Image Size:

14.75 in. (h) x 9.875 in. (w)

Literature:

Catalogue Raisonné: Daumier Register Number 1653; Hazard & Delteil Number 2592.