Ménélas vainqueur (The conqueror Menelaus)

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Ménélas vainqueur (The conqueror Menelaus)
Ménélas vainqueur (The conqueror Menelaus)
Artist/Maker (French, 1808 - 1879)
Publisher (French)
Publisher (French)
Printer (French)
Datepublished December 22, 1841
MediumHand-colored lithograph on paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 7/8 × 8 in. (30.2 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LinePurchased by Elihu Root Jr., Class of 1903, and Edward W. Root, Class of 1905, for the Hamilton College Picture Rental Collection.
Object number1984.42
Not on view

Additional Details

Alternate Titles Ménélas Vainqueur (Menelaus the Victor) from the series "Histoire Ancienne" ("Ancient History")
Ménélas Vainqueur (Menelaus the Victor)
Provenance 1984: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by transfer from the student loan collection;
?: Hamilton College (Picture Rental Collection), by gift of Elihu Root Jr., Class of 1903, and Edward W. Root, Class of 1905.
Markings Marks: none noted.
Signature Initialed "h.D." in stone lower left.
Inscribed "HISTOIRE ANCIENNE." at upper center in typeset; "Chez Bauger 7 Cie. Edits. R du Croissant 16" at lower left in typeset; "Chez Aubert & pl. de la Bourse." at lower center in typeset; "Imp. d'Aubert 7 Cie." at lower right in typeset;
"1" at upper right in typeset; "326" in stone at lower right.
Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu’il va dormir dans la forêt de St. Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards! (When there is thirty degrees of heat, happy is the bourgeois man who goes to sleep in the forest of St. Germain, in the company of his wife and many lizards!), no. 27 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)"
Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu’il va dormir dans la forêt de St. Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards! (When there is thirty degrees of heat, happy is the bourgeois man who goes to sleep in the forest of St. Germain, in the company of his wife and many lizards!), no. 27 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)"
Honoré Daumier
Date: published April 22, 1847
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1928.5
Le membre de toutes les académies (The Member of All the Academies), no. 25 from the series Bohemiens De Paris (Bohemians of Paris)
Le membre de toutes les académies (The Member of All the Academies), no. 25 from the series Bohemiens De Paris (Bohemians of Paris)
Honoré Daumier
Date: published March 6, 1842
Medium: Lithograph on parchment paper
Object number: 1984.12
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Attention, Gargouillet, v’là le bourgeois qui passe avec son épouse... (Attention, Gargouillet, go to the bourgeois man who passes with his wife), from the series "Les Baigneurs" (The Bathers)
Honoré Daumier
Date: published 1842
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1997.11.2
Image Not Available for N’est-il pas vrai.., brave turco..., que vous préférez les Francaises aux Africaines? (Isn't it true, brave Turco..., that you prefer French women to African women?), no. 100 from the series "Actualités (Current Events)"
N’est-il pas vrai.., brave turco..., que vous préférez les Francaises aux Africaines? (Isn't it true, brave Turco..., that you prefer French women to African women?), no. 100 from the series "Actualités (Current Events)"
Honoré Daumier
Date: published August 31, 1859
Medium: Lithograph on newsprint
Object number: 1986.10
La planche démontrée par le précepte et par l’exemple (The board demonstrated by precept and example), from the series "Les Baigneuses" ("The Bathers")
La planche démontrée par le précepte et par l’exemple (The board demonstrated by precept and example), from the series "Les Baigneuses" ("The Bathers")
Honoré Daumier
Date: published September 13, 1847
Medium: Lithograph on newsprint
Object number: 1984.11
Ayant eu la fâcheuse idée d’aller faire la sieste au bord de l’eau (Having had the unfortunate idea of going to take a nap at the water’s edge), no. 9 from the series "Croquis D'ete" ("Summer Sketch")
Ayant eu la fâcheuse idée d’aller faire la sieste au bord de l’eau (Having had the unfortunate idea of going to take a nap at the water’s edge), no. 9 from the series "Croquis D'ete" ("Summer Sketch")
Honoré Daumier
Date: published August 25, 1856
Medium: Lithograph on newsprint
Object number: 1984.13
Children Playing
Children Playing
Honoré Daumier
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Photogravure
Object number: S2018.2.46
Photo by John Bentham.
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George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.105
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Currier & Ives
Date: unknown
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.83
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Currier & Ives
Date: unknown
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.39
Camping Out. : "Some of the Right Sort"
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Louis Maurer
Date: Publ. 1856
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1949.2
Mink Trapping: "Prime"
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Currier & Ives
Date: Publ. 1862
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.56