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"When we do not want to see the dawn rise, we do not care about a neighbor like that!" from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

"When we do not want to see the dawn rise, we do not care about a neighbor like that!" from Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals

Honoré de Balzac|J. J. Grandville|Louis-Henri Brevière

Date
ca. 1842
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 10 5/16 × 7 1/4 in. (26.2 × 18.4 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.500.592(16)
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

French, Tours 1799–1850 Paris|French, Nancy 1803–1847 Vanves|French, Forges-les-Eaux 1797–1869 Hyers

Subjects and terms

  • Singing
  • Roosters
  • Dogs

The Met object ID 812743. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.