O plaisir de l'opium, que tu me ravis ! ... il me semble que j'habite l'Orient... du reste, je ne sais quelle voix secrète me criait depuis longtemps que ma véritable patrie aurait dû être le désert!..

Item Information

Title:
O plaisir de l'opium, que tu me ravis ! ... il me semble que j'habite l'Orient... du reste, je ne sais quelle voix secrète me criait depuis longtemps que ma véritable patrie aurait dû être le désert!..
Title (alt.):
O 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!.... Charivari
Description:
A woman is smoking an opium pipe.
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1844
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Pipes (smoking equipment)
France--History--Louis-Philip, 1830-1848
Women
Opium
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 38 x 26 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/1594
Terms of Use:
Copyright restrictions may apply. For permission to copy or use this image, contact the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis University Libraries. The following credit line must be included with each item used: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.
Contact host institution for more information.
Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
3rd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, May 7, 1844.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD1246