Honoré Daumier
A fixed-price dinner. Here’s a restaurant owner who does things the big way….. for our 32 sous, he provided us with a stomach ache that will cost twenty francs per person to cure!
1843
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Honoré Daumier
A fixed-price dinner. Here’s a restaurant owner who does things the big way….. for our 32 sous, he provided us with a stomach ache that will cost twenty francs per person to cure!
1843
Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 372 × 243 mm. (14 5/8 × 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Hoff, Hyndman, Pennsylvania, in Memory of William L. Hoff
Object Number
1989.718
Published in Le Charivari, July 12, 1844.
Inscribed: FACE (in image): TE, 'Les Etrangers à Paris.'; below image, 'UN DINER A PRIX FIXE./Voilà un restaurateur qui fait les choses grandement... pour nos trente deux sous il nous a fourni une rolique à vingt francs pàr tête!...'; (in graphite): BE, at left, 'D 1283 15-498', at right, 'CK $7.50'
