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A Queue at the Theatre. These ignorants are screaming against this person of authority who is protecting them from being crushed and who spends his life in snow and mud. Such is the fate of a civil servant! (La queue au spectacle. Et les sans-coeur crient contre l'autorité que les empèche de s'écraser, et qui passe sa vie dans la neige et dans la crotte, voilà pourtant le sort des gouvernements!.....) from the series Parisian Feelings (Émotions parisiennes)

A Queue at the Theatre. These ignorants are screaming against this person of authority who is protecting them from being crushed and who spends his life in snow and mud. Such is the fate of a civil servant! (La queue au spectacle. Et les sans-coeur crient contre l'autorité que les empèche de s'écraser, et qui passe sa vie dans la neige et dans la crotte, voilà pourtant le sort des gouvernements!.....) from the series Parisian Feelings (Émotions parisiennes)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
A Queue at the Theatre. These ignorants are screaming against this person of authority who is protecting them from being crushed and who spends his life in snow and mud. Such is the fate of a civil servant! (La queue au spectacle. Et les sans-coeur crient contre l'autorité que les empèche de s'écraser, et qui passe sa vie dans la neige et dans la crotte, voilà pourtant le sort des gouvernements!.....) from the series Parisian Feelings (Émotions parisiennes)
Date
1840
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
10 x 7 3/4 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1977.319
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

To 1977, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); December 1977, gifted to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Delteil, Loys. "Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XX-XXIX." Paris, 1906-1926. no. 705
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1985. pp. 34-35, cat. no. 26

  • Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/27/1985–6/23/1985

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