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A Proverb from the period. / What is Diogenes doing with a lantern? / the elegant dandies ask with concern. / I am looking for a man with my weak eyes, / can’t find him. / They thought this answer was quite a shame. / (Poetical essay by M. de Rambuteau).
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Honoré Daumier

A Proverb from the period. / What is Diogenes doing with a lantern? / the elegant dandies ask with concern. / I am looking for a man with my weak eyes, / can’t find him. / They thought this answer was quite a shame. / (Poetical essay by M. de Rambuteau).

1842

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Honoré Daumier

A Proverb from the period. / What is Diogenes doing with a lantern? / the elegant dandies ask with concern. / I am looking for a man with my weak eyes, / can’t find him. / They thought this answer was quite a shame. / (Poetical essay by M. de Rambuteau).

1842

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 243 × 190 mm. (9 9/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plate 18 from the series "Histoire Ancienne"
Credit Line Given in Memory of Joseph Katz by his Children
Object Number 1963.109.89

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Honoré Daumier

French, 1808-1879

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Honoré Daumier
Listen carefully! If you are being asked for arabic Racahout to fatten all kinds of sultanas (women in a harem), for arabian Nafé for suckling children of all ages, for oriental Kaiffa to cure gastritis or corns, for Theobrome against vomiting, for Amandine, Indostane, Osman-Iglou, Paraguay-Roux, Criosote, Chocolat of Salep, Hypocras, white mustard to treat black moods, tooth ache and overweight, or Giant Cabbage seed, you will find it all in this bag, make no mistake!! You can sell it as a powder, ointment, solution or pellets, as you see fit. - Damnit! What kind of pellets are these anyway? - They are fool's pellets of the highest quality. - Splendid, splendid!
1837
Charles Maurand and Honoré Daumier
Un Guichet de théatre.
1862
Honoré Daumier
Mr. Viennet at the rostrum. What do I say! (Mr. Laboissière, you do say the nicest things!)…. Let us be greedy... let us give the ministers the funds that they require and let's vote for repressive laws. The present legality is killing us etc. etc. The speaker has carried on in this tone for three hours and 35 minutes and no one has bothered answering him.
1833
Unknown Artist and Honoré Daumier
Croquade Divers
1840
Honoré Daumier
A visit to the Library. - Listen woman... they have told us not to disturb the people sitting here, because they are working. - What do you mean working... they are just feigning to be working... in reality they aren't moving at all! --- Visitors from the province who insist on overlooking Paris from the top of the July Column, convinced that the revolution of 1830 was only made in order to have a pretext to build an observatory on the Place de la Bastille.
1853
Alfred Prunaire and Honoré Daumier
The Grand Stairway of the Palais de Justice
c. 1903
Honoré Daumier
Robert Macaire's boarding school. - Professor, here's my system of education. Have an undemanding curriculum so that study lasts as long as possible, give holidays, receive presents at every possible anniversary, and as for the prices, one should be perfectly impartial... - Quite right! They should only be given to the best pupils. - What! Upset the parents! Oh no! Not at all! Prizes shall be given to everybody. To every man his due!
1837
Alfred Prunaire and Honoré Daumier
The Grand Stairway of the Palais de Justice
c. 1903
Honoré Daumier
Mr. Viennet at the rostrum. What do I say! (Mr. Laboissière, you do say the nicest things!)…. Let us be greedy... let us give the ministers the funds that they require and let's vote for repressive laws. The present legality is killing us etc. etc. The speaker has carried on in this tone for three hours and 35 minutes and no one has bothered answering him.
1833
Alfred Prunaire and Honoré Daumier
The Grand Stairway of the Palais de Justice
n.d.
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Small Bust of Bearded Man Looking Down, with Eyes Nearly Closed
after c. 1631