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- Robert . . . Your'e not holding up your end of the conversation . . . That's impolite! - How can I hold up the conversation . . . if I can't hold myself up.(- Robert . . . tu ne soutiens plus la conversation . . . 'est pas poli ça! . . .  -Comment veux tu que j'soutienne la conversation . . . j'peux plus m'soutenir moi-même!), number 53 from the series The Good Bourgeois (Les bons bourgeois)

- Robert . . . Your'e not holding up your end of the conversation . . . That's impolite! - How can I hold up the conversation . . . if I can't hold myself up.(- Robert . . . tu ne soutiens plus la conversation . . . 'est pas poli ça! . . . -Comment veux tu que j'soutienne la conversation . . . j'peux plus m'soutenir moi-même!), number 53 from the series The Good Bourgeois (Les bons bourgeois)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
- Robert . . . Your'e not holding up your end of the conversation . . . That's impolite! - How can I hold up the conversation . . . if I can't hold myself up.(- Robert . . . tu ne soutiens plus la conversation . . . 'est pas poli ça! . . . -Comment veux tu que j'soutienne la conversation . . . j'peux plus m'soutenir moi-même!), number 53 from the series The Good Bourgeois (Les bons bourgeois)
Date
1847
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
14 1/8 x 9 3/16 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1977.391
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. 1529
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1985. pp. 44, 46, cat. no. 35

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

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