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Honoré Daumier

Be polite, you uneducated flail… (Lesson in juvenile civility and honest courtesy)

1838

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Honoré Daumier

Be polite, you uneducated flail… (Lesson in juvenile civility and honest courtesy)

1838

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 340 × 250 mm. (13 3/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Ann Hoff, Hyndman, Pennsylvania, in Memory of William L. Hoff
Object Number 1989.710
Published in Le Charivari, June 19, 1839.

Inscribed: FACE (in image): TE, 'SCENES GROTESQUES'; below image, 'Soyez donc poli...i ...impertinent!!.../Leçon de civilité puerile et honète); (in graphite): LR corner, 'CO729' VERSO: clean of inscriptions

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Honoré Daumier

1807–1878

French, 1808-1879
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