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Artist: Daumier, Honoré Victorin (3)

Period: 19th century (9817)

Type: chalk (1606) | ink (2963) | watercolour (2151)

Style: French (759)

Keywords
beds (90) | caricatures (93) | doctors (74) | genre (380) | hypochondriacs (1) | illness and disease (106) | nurses (31) | patients (45) | syringes (1)

Le Malade Imaginaire (The Hypochondriac)

Circa 1850

Daumier, Honoré Victorin    more

Black chalks, black ink wash, watercolour and touches of bodycolour with pen and point of the brush in brown and black-grey ink on laid paper

height: 20.7 cm; width: 27.1 cm

Inscription
Inscribed, signed, recto, lower left:
H. Daumier

Acquisition
Courtauld, Samuel; gift; 1934
D.1934.SC.113

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London