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Artist
- Name:
- Daumier, Honoré
- Dates:
- 1808-1879
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Humor
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Lithographer:
- Destouches, Pierre Louis Hypolite
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- National Gallery of Art Washington DC
Periodical
- Title:
- Le Charivari
- Author(s):
- Collective work
- Published:
- Paris, 1857
Description
Four people are out on a bank at night, their heads tilted back to peer into the starry sky in the hope of catching a glimpse of the comet of 1857—which never showed up. Announced by the astronomer Jacques Babinet, it was supposed to black out the sun and hit the earth on June 13, 1857.
This illustration was published in Le Charivari on February 25, 1857. It is part of the miscellaneous series titled Actualités. Second state of two.
The caption reads in the original French: Les parisiens dans l’attente de la fameuse comète.
Keywords: 1850s, 19th century, black & white, mixed genders, night, periodical, watching
