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- Artist
- Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879) - Title
- Explain to me, Monsieur Badoulard, why the Government sees us as demagogues always ready to revolt? . . . I came to my citizen's post, but my wife tells me that if I were to appear in the streets in my uniform, I might be arrested. by the city seargent! (Expliquez-moi donc, Monsieur Badoulard, pourquoi nous passons tous en ce moment aux yeux du gouvernement pour des démagogues toujours prêts à nous insurger!.... je suis venu au poste en citadine, ma femme m'a dit que si je me montrais dans les rues en uniforme je pourrais être arrêté par les Sergens de ville!), number 93 from the series News (Actualités)
- Date
- 1851
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- 14 x 9 3/4 in. Support
- Credit
- Gift of Helen Wurdemann
- Accession No.
- 1985.132
- Classification
- Prints
- Geography
- France
Related
To 1985, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); November 1985, 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. 2087
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