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"How I Am Sorry" by Honoré-Victorin Daumier — VisualArtsDB

"How I Am Sorry"

"How I Am Sorry"

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

1840

Medium: Lithograph
Genre: Print
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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french

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“Yes, they would plunder this orphan, whom I cannot necessarily describe as being young, since he is fifty-seven years ol...I am, reassured knowing that justice always keeps an open eye on all guilty maneuvers! . . . ,” plate 11 from Les Gens De Justice

“Yes, they would plunder this orphan, whom I cannot necessarily describe as being young, since he is fifty-seven years ol...I am, reassured knowing that justice always keeps an open eye on all guilty maneuvers! . . . ,” plate 11 from Les Gens De Justice

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

A Start at Hunting

A Start at Hunting

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1844

Country Amusement. “- Monsieur did not want to wait for his nephew; and Madame thought it might soon start raining, but he didn't really bother. - What an old miser! - Don't you worry, Mother Poirier, he'll pay dearly for that... more than the market price! - And right she is isn't she!,” plate 59 from Moeurs Conjugales

Country Amusement. “- Monsieur did not want to wait for his nephew; and Madame thought it might soon start raining, but he didn't really bother. - What an old miser! - Don't you worry, Mother Poirier, he'll pay dearly for that... more than the market price! - And right she is isn't she!,” plate 59 from Moeurs Conjugales

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1842

The Election Hoax

The Election Hoax

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1844

Self-Portrait of a Frenchman, plate 2 from Scénes D'ateliers

Self-Portrait of a Frenchman, plate 2 from Scénes D'ateliers

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1849

A Young Man Who is the Pride and Hope of the Badinguet Family, plate 16 from Les Bons Bourgeois

A Young Man Who is the Pride and Hope of the Badinguet Family, plate 16 from Les Bons Bourgeois

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1846

“- And your bourgeois - is he for freedom of the butcher's trade?,” plate 464 from Actualités

“- And your bourgeois - is he for freedom of the butcher's trade?,” plate 464 from Actualités

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1857

“- Ah, my dear Madame Chaffarou... this surely must be the end... the comet is coming and the sun is going,” plate 392 from Actualités

“- Ah, my dear Madame Chaffarou... this surely must be the end... the comet is coming and the sun is going,” plate 392 from Actualités

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1857

A Boat Maneuver, plate nine from Les Canotiers Parisiens

A Boat Maneuver, plate nine from Les Canotiers Parisiens

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1843

The Terrible Director. “- Indeed! You are telling me that you missed today's rehearsal because you had to set leeches onto your mother? - Yes sir. - But, when you first came here three months ago, you told me that you were an orphan. This is the first time in my long career at the theater that I have met a person who sets leeches on the body of a dead person,” plate 5 from Les Moments Difficiles De La Vie

The Terrible Director. “- Indeed! You are telling me that you missed today's rehearsal because you had to set leeches onto your mother? - Yes sir. - But, when you first came here three months ago, you told me that you were an orphan. This is the first time in my long career at the theater that I have met a person who sets leeches on the body of a dead person,” plate 5 from Les Moments Difficiles De La Vie

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1864

"Well then...do you intend to stay there?"

"Well then...do you intend to stay there?"

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1859

"Don't look over there, you see it's really only a dummy."

"Don't look over there, you see it's really only a dummy."

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1869