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Series Title: The Best Days in Life

An Indian Custom

1844

Honoré Daumier

(French, 1808–1879)
printer and publisher

Aubert

Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
lithograph
Support
Cream wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 31.8 x 22.9 cm (12 1/2 x 9 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1966.402
Catalogue raisonné
Daumier Register / Delteil 1117 ; Hazard-Delteil 754
State
III/III
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

This print was published in Le Charivari (November 9, 1844) as plate 30 from the series The Best Days in Life.
A vertically oriented lithograph depicts two men with light skin tones in caricatured dress. On our left, a man in profile wears a patterned turban and dark coat while gesturing toward the second man. The other recoils with an oversized head, wide eyes, and gaping mouth beneath a bulbous turban. A dagger is tucked into his sash. French text frames the composition, rendered in expressive, sketch-like linework.

An Indian Custom

1844

Honoré Daumier, Aubert

(French, 1808–1879)
France, 19th century

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