Honoré Daumier
A fashionable dresscoat. – Monsieur, I assure you that this suit is very becoming!…. – Yes, both becoming and economical…. with a jacket like this, one could very well answer the door and be taken for one’s own servant!
1844
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Honoré Daumier
A fashionable dresscoat. – Monsieur, I assure you that this suit is very becoming!…. – Yes, both becoming and economical…. with a jacket like this, one could very well answer the door and be taken for one’s own servant!
1844
Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 365 × 250 mm. (14 3/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 68 from the series "Les Beaux jours de la vie"
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Hoff, Hyndman, Pennsylvania, in Memory of William L. Hoff
Object Number
1989.723
Published in Le Charivari, August 28, 1845.
Inscribed: FACE (in image): 'Un habit à la mode'; '-Monsieur je vous jure que cet habit avantage beaucoup!... -Oui c'est avantageux et économique... avec une veste pareille on peut très bien aller ouvrir la porte quand on sonne, et se faire passer pour son propre domestique!..'; (in graphite): BE, at left, 'D1156', at center, '114-C-117 C $6.-', at right 'L O 1156'
