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Maker(s):Daumier, Honoré Victorin
Culture:French (1808-1879)
Title:O plaisir de l'opium ...(from Les Bas-Bleus)
Date Made:1844
Type:Print
Materials:lithograph on cream moderately thick smooth paper
Place Made:France
Measurements:Sheet: 12 3/8 in x 9 5/8 in; 31.4 cm x 24.4 cm; Image: 8 3/8 in x 6 7/8 in; 21.3 cm x 17.5 cm
Accession Number:  SC 2019.16.1.4
Credit Line:Purchased with the Katharine S. Pearce, class of 1915, Fund
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
2019_16_1_4.jpg

Description:
A woman holding an opium pipe; addiction; social satire; misogyny; anti-femnist propaganda

Label Text:
Transl. Oh opium! You ravish me with pleasure!... It seems as though I dwelt in the orient... indeed, for a long time now a secret voice has whispered to me that the desert should have been my true home!...

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