Woman Throwing a Ball from Animal Locomotion
Artist
Eadweard Muybridge
(British, 1830 – 1904)
Date1887
Period19th century
MediumCollotype
DimensionsImage Size: 13 5/8 x 19 1/2 inches
Object Size: 18 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches
Object Size: 18 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches
Credit LinePurchase with funds provided by the Fine Arts Acquisition Fund
Object number1998.008
Curatorial DepartmentEuropean Art (pre 1900)
_Place of OriginUnited Kingdom
![–Pour un lapin, voilà un fier lapin….. aussi on l’a mis dans un endroit grillé!…
–Je crois qu’on aurait même bien fait de le museler!…
[–Quite a hare… not bad for a hare!… good idea to keep him behind bars.
–I think they also should have muzzled him.]
from the series L’Exposition des Animaux [The Animal Fair], number 4, published in Le Charivari](/internal/media/dispatcher/197/thumbnail)
Honoré Daumier
published June 16, 1856
Object number: 1968.011
Benjamin Champney
1853
Object number: 2011.004.065
![. . . qu'est la femme aujourd'hui dans société, rien! que doit-elle être? tout . . . oui, tout, tout! . . . . –Ah! bravo, bravo, c’est encoré plus beau que le discours de Jeanne Derouin! [What is woman in today's society? Nothing! What should the meaning be? Everything, yes everything, everything . . . Ah! Bravo, bravo, this speech is even better than the last one Jeanne Derouin gave!]
from the series Les Femmes Socialistes, No 6, published in Le Charivari](/internal/media/dispatcher/5039/thumbnail)
Honoré Daumier
published May 17, 1849
Object number: 2014.179
![Oh! p’pa….. la belle femme!…. [Oh! daddy… what a beautiful woman!]
from the series Les Papas, number 1, published in Le Charivari](/internal/media/dispatcher/5047/thumbnail)
Honoré Daumier
published December 10, 1846
Object number: 2014.187