A chemist gives a demonstration involving arsenic to an audience. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.

  • Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879.
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1841
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16518i
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Some bloody animal carcasses lie crushed in the bottom right-hand corner, their faces still bearing the traces of agony

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Paris (Galerie Véro-Dodat) : Aubert, 1841 (Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie.)

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour and gum arabic ; image 22.5 x 19 cm.

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Actualités. L'amitié d'un grand chimiste n'est pas un bienfait des dieux ... Lettering continues: Je suis tellement sur de mon fait, que maintenant, si vous le desirez, je vais empoisonner mon ami intime, Mr. Coquardeau, et je retrouverai de l'arsenic dans le verre de ses lunettes.

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Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome cinquième, Paris 1949, pp. 472-473, Daumier no. 139.39 ("139 … 39. L'amitié d'un grand chimiste... et l'arsenic [L. D. 723, 2e état. … ")

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