Un Divertessement de Pékin. Les chinois qui ont travaillé assiduement toute la journée, éprouvent le soir le besoin de se distraire, aussi ont-ils inventé un jeu très spirituel dont le détail serait beaucoup trop long, il nous suffit de dire qu'il se joue avec de petite morceaux d'os nommés dominos, presque tous les négocians en opium, thé, sucre, pruneaux et autre denrées coloniales se donnent comme excessivement forts à ce jeu éminemment chinois. (A Beijing Pasttime. The Chinese, Who Have Worked Assiduously All Day, Have the Need to Relax during the Night. For This Purpose, They Have Invented a Very Spiritual Game of Which the Details Would be Too Long to Explain. It Should be Sufficient to Say That It is Played with Little Pieces of Bone, Called Dominos. Most of the Merchants in Opium, Tea, Sugar, Prunes and Other Colonial Commodities Are Extremely Good at this Typically Chinese Game.) from the series Voyage en Chine

Maker and role
Artist: Honoré Daumier, French, 1808-1879
 Year
1844

Object detail

Media/Materials
Lithograph
Measurements
image, 7 1/8 x 8 3/4in (18.1 x 22.2cm)
sheet, 11 x 14in (27.9 x 35.6cm)
Credit line
Gift of Ruth S. Magurn
Accession number
1986.29
Object type
Prints
Department
Prints and Drawings
Location
Not on view
Signature & date
Signed l.l.: H. D.
Inscribed u.c.: Voyage de Chine. 13
Inscribed in stone, l.r.: 659
Inscribed l.c.: Un divertissement de Pékin...
LD 1201
Verso: sur blanc; collector's stamp in black, l.l.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, l.r.: 15-
Collector’s stamp: A. Bloch
Publisher details
Le Charivari, September 29, 1844; Album Comique - Voyage en Chine, 1845
Subject period
Social Realist
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