La question du lait, D.4815, Albert Guillaume, En 1902

Author(s): guillaume, albert (paris, 14–02–1873 - faux, 10–08–1942), designer other title: drop of milk seen under a microscope and magnified eight hundred times (title attributed) production date: in 1902 type(s) of object(s): drawing, graphic arts name(s): drawing dimensions - artwork: height: 49. 3cm width: 32. 2cm dimensions - museum assembly: height: 63 cm width: 47cm dimensions - museum master key: height: 65cm width: 50cm marks, inscriptions, hallmarks: signature of the performer - on the front of the drawing at the bottom right, signed, dated and dedicated: "at the municipal laboratory / grateful tribute / from a member of the league for / human life / to guillaume / jan. 1902" \ inscription in ink inscription concerning the title - on the front of the drawing at the top, inscription in ink: "the question of milk [underlined] / by albert guillaume / drop of milk seen under a microscope and magnified eight hundred times -" \ inscription in ink inscription - on the front of the drawing at the bottom, inscription in black ink: "the white porcelain vase / from which this doubtful milk is drawn / was seized near a fountain. / cops and milkmen capsized it / but what matter are the bruises / which chipped it all around! / infallible and sure science, / slowly went around it / under the microscope, drop by drop, / the bottom of the vase was searched; / there is no longer any doubt. / don't drink it! / it's wet, / touching the stomach, it harms it / it's one, it's the other that perishes / always intact in the eyes of the world, / alas! z not!. / according to sully-prudhomme \ inscription in ink stamp - on the front of the drawing in the center, oval stamp in blue ink "musee carnavalet" (lugt supp. 432 c) \ inscription in ink inventory number - on the front of the drawing at the bottom right, number in red ink: "i. E. D. 4315" \ inscription in ink inscription - on the front of the drawing at the bottom right, entry number in black ink: "e-13-481-d32" \ inscription in ink inscription - on the front of the drawing at the bottom left, number in pencil: "1" \ inscription in pencil inscription - on the back of the drawing in the center, cross in red pencil: "x" \ pencil inscription iconographic description: the milk question, 1902. Caricature and charge. Poetry. Illustration. Woman milking a cow, farmer at the well, housewife heating milk, sick person in bed drinking, infants with bottles, figure filling milk jugs, hose, figure near a hut bearing the inscription "non-potable water", inscriptions "after sully-prudhomme" historical commentary: preparatory drawing for the illustration "the milk question" for the newspaper "le matin" from 1902 (see bnf, albert guillaume s. N. R. Collection). The text of the drawing parodies the lines of sully prudhomme's poem "the broken vase". Mode of acquisition: legacy name of donor, testator, seller: girard (mademoiselle) date of acquisition: 01–05–1932 institution: carnavalet museum, history of paris inventory number: d. 4815. Date: En 1902.