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Details
- Other Titles
- The nodding head
The loose head. (Daumier Register) - Alternative title
- La tête branlante
- Date
- 1834
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- only state
- Dimensions
- 20.5 x 27.2 cm image
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., black ink [inscribed on stone] "H.-D.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 481.1988
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Honoré Daumier
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About
Plate 427 published in 'La Caricature', no 204, 2 October 1834.
A crowd watches a man walks past them carrying the plaster effigy of an obese man with a wobbly head. Although it is seen from behind, the statue clearly represents King Louis-Philippe, as confirmed by the pear on the right. The plate is inscribed: ‘I am always open to new pleasures’.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 1990–27 Jan 1991
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Nicholas Draffin, Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Sydney, 1991, p 6.
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