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The Patron by Honoré-Victorin Daumier — VisualArtsDB

The Patron

The Patron

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

1842

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

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french

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Abuse of article 214 of the civil law. “My lady wife, you let me want for everything, you only allow me a miserable pension of three thousand francs, you throw me out of your door like a beggar, and, what is more, you want to drive me away from Paris, exile me, deport me!... No! No! I won't leave France! I won't! I won't!!... Listen, I owe my friend Bertrand 10'000 Fr., it's a gambler's debt, a debt of honor, I owe my cook 525 Fr. and ten francs for my chambers, a total of 10'535 Fr. Let me have a few thousand francs more to take my mind off my domestic worries and, on my word of honor, I won't pester you any longer,” plate 50 from Caricaturana

Abuse of article 214 of the civil law. “My lady wife, you let me want for everything, you only allow me a miserable pension of three thousand francs, you throw me out of your door like a beggar, and, what is more, you want to drive me away from Paris, exile me, deport me!... No! No! I won't leave France! I won't! I won't!!... Listen, I owe my friend Bertrand 10'000 Fr., it's a gambler's debt, a debt of honor, I owe my cook 525 Fr. and ten francs for my chambers, a total of 10'535 Fr. Let me have a few thousand francs more to take my mind off my domestic worries and, on my word of honor, I won't pester you any longer,” plate 50 from Caricaturana

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1839

"Let's not enter that restaurant..."

"Let's not enter that restaurant..."

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1857

The Evening of the National Holiday. It never fails... you go out to see the fireworks, and all you get is waterworks!, plate 20 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

The Evening of the National Holiday. It never fails... you go out to see the fireworks, and all you get is waterworks!, plate 20 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1844

A Fair Reward Presented in 1800 by the Un-Prudish Savages of North America to Louis-Philippe of Orléans, surgeon and expatriate, but still a Frenchman. (I salute you, gracious Black Lady, the Lord is with you.) A Namaquan Ave Maria, plate 466

A Fair Reward Presented in 1800 by the Un-Prudish Savages of North America to Louis-Philippe of Orléans, surgeon and expatriate, but still a Frenchman. (I salute you, gracious Black Lady, the Lord is with you.) A Namaquan Ave Maria, plate 466

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1835

A Visit to the Salon

A Visit to the Salon

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

The Water From the Wells of Grenelle

The Water From the Wells of Grenelle

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Nonsense about your dance of the ancient magots... Look, this is how we dance in Paris... This is what's chic!... It's with this that we take the fancy of women.

Nonsense about your dance of the ancient magots... Look, this is how we dance in Paris... This is what's chic!... It's with this that we take the fancy of women.

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1859

"I am young, it is true."

"I am young, it is true."

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1841

Friendship With a Great Chemist is Not Always a Godsend… “I am so sure of my findings that I will now poison my best friend, Mr. Coquardeau, and I will retrieve arsenic in his eyeglasses,” plate 39 from Émotions Parisiennes

Friendship With a Great Chemist is Not Always a Godsend… “I am so sure of my findings that I will now poison my best friend, Mr. Coquardeau, and I will retrieve arsenic in his eyeglasses,” plate 39 from Émotions Parisiennes

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1841

"What put it into your head, Adelaide, to go spend our Sunday in the country?...we would have been so much better off at home!...."

"What put it into your head, Adelaide, to go spend our Sunday in the country?...we would have been so much better off at home!...."

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1857

“My dear man... it is really quite impossible for me to take on your case.... you are missing the most important piece of evidence.... (apart from) the cash to pay my fees,” plate 20 from Les Gens De Justice

“My dear man... it is really quite impossible for me to take on your case.... you are missing the most important piece of evidence.... (apart from) the cash to pay my fees,” plate 20 from Les Gens De Justice

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1846

“- You are not wearing a Talma yet? - No, I remain loyal to the overcoat, it's more flattering to my waistline,” plate 1 from Les Bons Parisiens

“- You are not wearing a Talma yet? - No, I remain loyal to the overcoat, it's more flattering to my waistline,” plate 1 from Les Bons Parisiens

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1852