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- Artist
- Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879) - Title
- Robert Macaire, director of an industrial newspaper. - Monsieur, I'm taking your transaction very seriously,Sir. It's a splendid deal... Would you like me to print a report in my newspaper, La Commandite? - You are most kind, Monsieur, you'll do me a great favour... - For 1000 Fr. I'll write you a resounding article... - A thousand francs!! That's terribly expensive, I think we'll rather to forget about it... - As you like, but in that case you'd better hold on, because I'm going to debate your case, contest your contribution, evaluate your profits... I owe it to my conscience to make all disastrous deals known to the public and I won't fail in my duty just to do you justice. (Robert Macaire Directeur d'un journal industriel. Monsieur, je fais le plus grand cas de votre opération, c’est une affaire magnifique….. Voulez vous que j’en rende compte dans mon journal La Commandite ? – Monsieur vous êtes bien honnête, cela me fera plaisir…… - pour 1000 f. je vous ferai un article ronflant….. - mille francs !!…c’est horriblement cher, j’aime mieux m’en passer…. – Comme vous voudrez, mais dans ce cas tenez vous bien car je vais discuter votre brevet, contester votre apport évaluer vos bénéfices….. je dois à ma conscience d’éclairer le public sur toutes les affaires désastreuses et je n’irai pas manquer à ma mission pour vous faire plaisir.), number 91 from the series Caricaturana
- Date
- 1838
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- 9 9/16 x 9 1/2 in. Image
- Credit
- Gift of Helen Wurdemann
- Accession No.
- 1982.71
- Classification
- Prints
- Geography
- France
Related
To 1982, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); December 1982, gifted to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Delteil, Loys. "Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XX-XXIX." Paris, 1906-1926. no. 446
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