![Le Baptême d'Achille [The Baptism of Achilles], plate 22 from Histoire Ancienne, in Le Charivari, 28 August 1842](/internal/media/dispatcher/19873/preview)
![Le Baptême d'Achille [The Baptism of Achilles], plate 22 from Histoire Ancienne, in Le Charivari, 28 August 1842](/internal/media/dispatcher/19873/full)
Le Baptême d'Achille [The Baptism of Achilles], plate 22 from Histoire Ancienne, in Le Charivari, 28 August 1842
Primary
Honoré Daumier
(Marseille, France, 1808–Valmondois, France, 1879)
Printer
Aubert & Cie.
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1842
MediumLithograph
DimensionsSheet: 13 3/8 × 9 3/4 in. (34 × 24.8 cm)
Image: 9 13/16 × 7 5/8 in. (24.9 × 19.4 cm)
Image: 9 13/16 × 7 5/8 in. (24.9 × 19.4 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Alvin and Ethel Romansky, G1972.2.20
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object numberG1972.2.20
On View
Not on viewPublished in Album Comique December 1841-January 1843; Published in Album Histoire Ancienne 1841-1842; Published in Le Charivari, 28 August 1842
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