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Sense of Hearing. Wake up Nini!…. I have been calling her for more than an hour, and she always replies: yes Adolphe. But neither the child’s name nor mine is Adolphe!
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Honoré Daumier and Charivari

Sense of Hearing. Wake up Nini!…. I have been calling her for more than an hour, and she always replies: yes Adolphe. But neither the child’s name nor mine is Adolphe!

1842

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Sense of Hearing. Wake up Nini!…. I have been calling her for more than an hour, and she always replies: yes Adolphe. But neither the child’s name nor mine is Adolphe!

Honoré Daumier and Charivari

Sense of Hearing. Wake up Nini!…. I have been calling her for more than an hour, and she always replies: yes Adolphe. But neither the child’s name nor mine is Adolphe!

Sense of Hearing. Wake up Nini!…. I have been calling her for more than an hour, and she always replies: yes Adolphe. But neither the child’s name nor mine is Adolphe!

1842

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 197 x 224 mm. (7 3/4 x 8 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1935.14.4
Published in La Caricature Deuxième série 1ère Année, "Revue morale, judiciaire, littéraire, artistique, fashionable et scénique", September 1, 1839, and Le Charivari, January 6, 1843.
Bought from Parnell in 1934

Inscribed: Signed l/r, H.D.

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