Art Institute of Chicago
The Return of the Oyster Season. “- I could eat twelve dozens of them… just imagine that there are people who don't like oysters… - They just have no self respect…,” plate 53 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie
Honoré Victorin Daumier
- Date
- published March 31, 1845
- Medium
- Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper (sheet folded to form four pages, but has separated), with text added in another hand and letterpress verso (and recto when unfolded)
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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