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Five o’clock in the evening. Mr. Coquelet, you are a unsocial being, conspiring with your dog. Twice now I’ve had 149 points, and he’s jumped up on the table and mixes up everything. Your dog is an accomplice! An you are an old cheat. - Image 1
Five o’clock in the evening. Mr. Coquelet, you are a unsocial being, conspiring with your dog. Twice now I’ve had 149 points, and he’s jumped up on the table and mixes up everything. Your dog is an accomplice! An you are an old cheat. - Image 2
Five o’clock in the evening. Mr. Coquelet, you are a unsocial being, conspiring with your dog. Twice now I’ve had 149 points, and he’s jumped up on the table and mixes up everything. Your dog is an accomplice! An you are an old cheat. - Image 3
Five o’clock in the evening. Mr. Coquelet, you are a unsocial being, conspiring with your dog. Twice now I’ve had 149 points, and he’s jumped up on the table and mixes up everything. Your dog is an accomplice! An you are an old cheat. - Image 4

Honoré Daumier

Five o’clock in the evening. Mr. Coquelet, you are a unsocial being, conspiring with your dog. Twice now I’ve had 149 points, and he’s jumped up on the table and mixes up everything. Your dog is an accomplice! An you are an old cheat.

1838

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Honoré Daumier

Five o’clock in the evening. Mr. Coquelet, you are a unsocial being, conspiring with your dog. Twice now I’ve had 149 points, and he’s jumped up on the table and mixes up everything. Your dog is an accomplice! An you are an old cheat.

1838

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 370 × 238 mm. (14 9/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Ann Hoff, Hyndman, Pennsylvania, in Memory of William L. Hoff
Object Number 1989.716
Published in Le Charivari, August 25, 1839.

Inscribed: FACE (in image): TE, 'LA JOURNEE DU CELIBATAIRE'; below image, '5 HEURES DU SOIR./M. Coquelet vous êtes un être insociable, vous vous entendez avec vot'chien, voilà deux fois que j'en ai 149, il sauté sur la table et il brouille tout. Votre chien est un compère!... et vous un vieux tricheur.'; (in graphite): along bottom, c.e., '25-43 c 6-', r.e., 'LD 616' VERSO: clean of inscriptions

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Honoré Daumier

1807–1878

French, 1808-1879
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