Mr. D'Argo
Date1833
Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1808–1879)
Illustration CitationLa Caricature, July 11, 1833
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 11 1/8 × 7 3/8 in. (28.3 × 18.7 cm)
sheet: 13 5/8 × 9 1/2 in. (34.6 × 24.1 cm)
sheet: 13 5/8 × 9 1/2 in. (34.6 × 24.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-446
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis is a portrait of Compte Antoine-Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout, government minister and head of the Bank of France. A competent bureaucrat and a moderate politician, Compte d'Argout survived the tumultuous political shifts in France, serving under kings and republican governments from the 1830s through the 1850s.
