Histoire Ancienne: Pygmalion
Date1842
Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1808–1879)
Illustration CitationLe Charivari, December 28, 1842
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 9 1/8 × 7 1/2 in. (23.2 × 19.1 cm)
sheet: 14 13/16 × 10 1/4 in. (37.6 × 26 cm)
sheet: 14 13/16 × 10 1/4 in. (37.6 × 26 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1991
Object number1991-48
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe caption translates to read: PYGMALION.
Oh, triumph of the arts! What a surprise
Great sculptor, when you saw your marble alive
And with a chaste, sweet voice, not at all rough
just quietly asked for a pinch of your snuff.
(Count Siméon)
