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When, in public, you would like to receive a good punch, stand like this! - Excuse me, professor, but I would prefer to stand so as not to be punched at all. - This would be against the rules of the art . . . and then you would not have the right to hit back!(Quand en société vous voudrez recevoir . . . ), number 31 from the series The Good Bourgeois (Les bons bourgeois)

When, in public, you would like to receive a good punch, stand like this! - Excuse me, professor, but I would prefer to stand so as not to be punched at all. - This would be against the rules of the art . . . and then you would not have the right to hit back!(Quand en société vous voudrez recevoir . . . ), number 31 from the series The Good Bourgeois (Les bons bourgeois)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
When, in public, you would like to receive a good punch, stand like this! - Excuse me, professor, but I would prefer to stand so as not to be punched at all. - This would be against the rules of the art . . . and then you would not have the right to hit back!(Quand en société vous voudrez recevoir . . . ), number 31 from the series The Good Bourgeois (Les bons bourgeois)
Date
1847
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
14 1/8 x 9 5/8 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1977.382
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. 1507
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1985. p. 10, cat. no. 2

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

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