Title: L'astronome allemand lâchant un fameux canard, from La Comète de 1857, published in Le Charivari, March 17, 1857
Object type: Print
Date: January 13, 1858
Portfolio: La Comète de 1857
Artist:  Honoré Daumier 
Artist bio: French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Lithograph; third state of three (Delteil)
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 14 3/16 in. (25 × 36 cm)
Image: 8 3/8 × 9 13/16 in. (21.3 × 25 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1954
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Ducks, term: Satire, term: Astronomers