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- Artist
- Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879) - Title
- Dramatic Farce. - Gently! Gently!? Do not raise the curtain, I am not playing -(the frightened Director rushing towards him). You must be joking, my dear Macaire, you must be joking? - Not at all, not at all! I will not play. - You will not play a similar trick to the theatre, to the author, to your poor colleagues? - Brrrrt! you are not honoring your engagements, so I have all the right to break mine, give me the leave! - I do not hold my engagements?? - No, you must pay me cash and you owe me!! - What? - You owe me 75 centimes. (Farce dramatique. Doucement ! Doucement !…. ne levez pas le rideau, je ne jous pas… - (Le Directeur accourant effrayé). Vous plaisantez, mon cher Macaire, vous plaisantez, n’est-ce pas ? – Pas du tout, pas du tout !… je ne jouerai pas… - Vous ne jouerez pas un semblable tour au théâtre, à l’auteur, à vos pauvres camarades… - Brrrrt ! vous ne tenez pas vos engagemens je romps le mien, donnez-moi le dédit… - Je ne tiens pas mes engagemens !! – Non, vous devez me payer comptant et vous me devez…… - Quoi ! – Vous me devez 75 centimes.), number 8 from the series Robert Macaire
- Date
- 1841
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- 7 3/4 x 10 in. Image
- Credit
- Gift of Helen Wurdemann
- Accession No.
- 1977.345
- 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. 873
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1985. p. 19, cat. no. 11
- Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/27/1985–6/23/1985
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