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Plate 36 from Moeurs conjugales in le Charivari April 11 1841
Arthur, you had promised me a throne and you put me behind a counter. --Heloïse, remember Napoleon's definition of a throne: "four boards covered with a carpet." You are sitting on six boards and a cushion
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Arthur, vous m'aviez promis un trône . . .
Plate 36 from Moeurs conjugales in le Charivari April 11 1841
Arthur, you had promised me a throne and you put me behind a counter. --Heloïse, remember Napoleon's definition of a throne: "four boards covered with a carpet." You are sitting on six boards and a cushion
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
1841
Medium/Technique
Lithograph, third state, album impression
Dimensions
Sheet: 32.2 x 24.8 cm (12 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB4238.44
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Delteil 0659, III (album); H.D. 2099
InscriptionsOn stone, c. Moeurs Conjugales; u.r. 36