Honoré Daumier
Yes sir, in exchange for a small premium with our insurance, you can be assured for death….for death in a proper gentlemanly manner. When you go off in a fine hearse, very comfortable, to be mourned by the poor people of the district, and leaving an inconsolable widow in golden letters on your grave…. – And if you don’t keep your promises? – Then you can still give us a receipt and sue us before a tribunal.
1838
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Honoré Daumier
Yes sir, in exchange for a small premium with our insurance, you can be assured for death….for death in a proper gentlemanly manner. When you go off in a fine hearse, very comfortable, to be mourned by the poor people of the district, and leaving an inconsolable widow in golden letters on your grave…. – And if you don’t keep your promises? – Then you can still give us a receipt and sue us before a tribunal.
1838
Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 350 × 260 mm. (13 3/4 × 10 1/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 95 from the series "Caricaturana"
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Hoff, Hyndman, Pennsylvania, in Memory of William L. Hoff
Object Number
1989.703
Inscribed: FACE (in image): Below image, 'Oui, monsieur, moyennant un petit abonnement à votre assurance, vous serez assuré de mourir...de/mourir en homme, comme il faut; de vous en aller dans une bonne voiture, bien commode, d'être/ pleuré par les pauvres de l'arondissement, et de laisser une veuve inconsolable en lettre d'or sur votre/tombeau... -Et si vous ne fenez pas vos promesser? - Alons il vous resterait nos quittances et votre/recours devant les tribunaux.'; (in graphite): UR corner, '19', along bottom, C to R, '39 217 HD $6.- LD 450' VERSO (stamped in black ink): LR corner, 'Made in France'
