- Une femme comme moi .... remettre un bouton ?... vous êtes fou!... - Allons bon!... voilà qu'elle ne se contente plus de porter les culottes... il faut encore qu'elle me les jette à la tête!... (- A woman like me... sew on a button?.... you must be out of your mind! - So be it!... It's not enough that she is wearing my breeches... she has to throw them on my head!! Plate 28 from Les Bas-Bleus in Le Charivari, May 23, 1844 – Works

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- Une femme comme moi .... remettre un bouton ?... vous êtes fou!... - Allons bon!... voilà qu'elle ne se contente plus de porter les culottes... il faut encore qu'elle me les jette à la tête!... (- A woman like me... sew on a button?.... you must be out of your mind! - So be it!... It's not enough that she is wearing my breeches... she has to throw them on my head!! Plate 28 from Les Bas-Bleus in Le Charivari, May 23, 1844

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)

1844

Medium/Technique Lithograph, third state

Dimensions Sheet: 30 x 21.2 cm (11 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1971.28

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Delteil 1248, III; H.D. 712

Descriptionpublished in Le Charivari

InscriptionsSigned on stone, l.l. h.D.; c. Les Bas-Bleus, u.r. 28

ProvenanceBy 1899, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of Babcock to the MFA. (Accession date: March 26, 2015)