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My dear, since we won’t have enough time to see everything in one day, you should look at the pictures on the right while I’ll look at the ones on the left, and when we get home, we’ll tell each other everything we saw.
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Honoré Daumier

My dear, since we won’t have enough time to see everything in one day, you should look at the pictures on the right while I’ll look at the ones on the left, and when we get home, we’ll tell each other everything we saw.

1859

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Honoré Daumier

My dear, since we won’t have enough time to see everything in one day, you should look at the pictures on the right while I’ll look at the ones on the left, and when we get home, we’ll tell each other everything we saw.

1859

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 222 x 270 mm. (8 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plate 3 from the series "Exposition de 1859"
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1948.148
Purchased from Roten
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Honore Daumier: Caricatures for Our Times," 1 September - 29 September, 1976; Circulated to Salisbury State College, 29 September - 27 October, 1976; Essex Community College, 27 October - 24 November, 1976; Loyola High School, 24 November - 22 December, 1976; Columbia, 28 December, 1976 - 18 January, 1977; Hagerstown Junior College, 18 January - 15 February, 1977; Morgan State University, 15 February - 8 March, 1977; Anne Arundel Community College, 8 March - 5 April, 1977; Washington College, 5 April - 3 May, 1977; U. Of MD. Eastern Shore, Downtown Gallery, 27 June - 29 July, 1977.

Inscribed: Signed l/l, on stone, h.D.

Artist

Honoré Daumier

French, 1808-1879

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Robert Macaire, barrister. - My dear Bertrand, give me a hundred crowns and I'll get you acquitted right away. - I've no money. - All right, give me a hundred francs. - I haven't got a penny. - You don't even have ten francs? - Not a farthing. - Then give me your boots, and I'll plead extenuating circumstances.
1836
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c. 1903
Honoré Daumier
The Oyster. (You'll wake me up at dinner time.) Big, fat, thick, plump, greedy, wakes up only for the purpose of taking in food and sleeps only for the purpose of digesting it. The oyster does not eat for living, but lives for eating. Its locomotive and industrial apparatus are non existent. It vegetates on the spot and its existence is manifested only by the exactitude, the number and the quality of the meals. The entire energy of the oyster is located in the stomach. One might call it an animal of pleasure, its only mission in life being to consume without working, while others work without consuming. It seems to be perfectly at ease with this providential mission. (Lacépède – Natural History.)
1837
Alfred Prunaire and Honoré Daumier
The Grand Stairway of the Palais de Justice
c. 1903
Honoré Daumier
To imagine that next year I will be exhibited and that everybody in Paris will see me... its is kind of flattering, isn't it Dear? - I'm just unhappy that you won't be wearing your neck-tie... it looks a bit sloppy... if there is still some time, why don't you ask the sculptor to add on your stand-up collar.
1859
Alfred Prunaire and Honoré Daumier
The Grand Stairway of the Palais de Justice
n.d.
Honoré Daumier
Alright, alright, I'm coming - one would think the house was on fire! - Enough about your fire!... I'm freezing. For two hours I've been pounding on the door. -(aside) that will teach you next time, not to give a tip!
1840