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The Prefect of the Empire by Honoré-Victorin Daumier — VisualArtsDB

The Prefect of the Empire

The Prefect of the Empire

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

1841

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

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"This Mr. Courbet does much too vulgar figures, there's no one in nature as ugly as that!"

"This Mr. Courbet does much too vulgar figures, there's no one in nature as ugly as that!"

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Chinese Talking Politics. Thanks to antiquity and the stability of the Constitution of China, this country is extremely unified... it counts only little more than 63 political parties. Quite often one finds Chinese citizens discussing vehemently on public places, using arguments they had prior seen in their favourite journal. Quite often the journal itself will replace the argument, being used as such, plate 20 from Voyage En Chine

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More marvels from the diamond hypnotist. Or, how to make the ladies pose in society in exhausting and not very gracious positions, plate 137 from Actualités

More marvels from the diamond hypnotist. Or, how to make the ladies pose in society in exhausting and not very gracious positions, plate 137 from Actualités

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1860

The Knight of the Golden Spur

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Water From the Wells of Grenelle

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“- Sir, I would like to subscribe for the earth quake at Batignolles..... here are two Francs.... but put in properly my name and address in your newspaper, Rigolard - Philanthropist, stationer at rue St. Honoré 345, offering clocks and statues by Dantan, Bohemian glass, English riding sticks, German chemical matches and generally everything that does not really concern this matter,” plate 6 from Les Philantropes Du Jour

“- Sir, I would like to subscribe for the earth quake at Batignolles..... here are two Francs.... but put in properly my name and address in your newspaper, Rigolard - Philanthropist, stationer at rue St. Honoré 345, offering clocks and statues by Dantan, Bohemian glass, English riding sticks, German chemical matches and generally everything that does not really concern this matter,” plate 6 from Les Philantropes Du Jour

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Scholars Overcome with Joy Contemplating the First Little Crocodile Born in France, Allowing Them to Hope to Succeed in Acclimatizing These Animals in the Seine

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“I say to myself: would anybody imagine that we are coming from the Rue des Lombards?... We really don't look like confectioners at all,” plate 2 from Coquetry

“I say to myself: would anybody imagine that we are coming from the Rue des Lombards?... We really don't look like confectioners at all,” plate 2 from Coquetry

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A Small Queue at the Entrance to the Palace of Industry. “- But I am telling you that I have a special entry permit! - Quite so, and this is why you are allowed to queue up already at the Obelisk.... otherwise you would have to start on the other side, close to the Etoile.... incidentally why not have a bite to eat while you are waiting... there is a charming little restaurant half way, plate 7 from Les Etrangers à Paris

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