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A Course in Modern Ethics. - Let's see young man, explain to me what a good deed is. - Sir, little Langlumé, who is the son of a stockbroker, told me that his papa had taught him that a good deed is one that shows profit. (Un cours de morale moderne. - Voyons, jeune homme, expliquez-moi ce que c'est qu'une bonne action?... - Mossieu, le p'tit Langlumé, qui est le fils d'un agent de change, m'a dit que son papa lui avait appris qu'une bonne action est celle qui est au-dessus du pair!), number from the series Parisian Sketches (Croquis Parisiens)

A Course in Modern Ethics. - Let's see young man, explain to me what a good deed is. - Sir, little Langlumé, who is the son of a stockbroker, told me that his papa had taught him that a good deed is one that shows profit. (Un cours de morale moderne. - Voyons, jeune homme, expliquez-moi ce que c'est qu'une bonne action?... - Mossieu, le p'tit Langlumé, qui est le fils d'un agent de change, m'a dit que son papa lui avait appris qu'une bonne action est celle qui est au-dessus du pair!), number from the series Parisian Sketches (Croquis Parisiens)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
A Course in Modern Ethics. - Let's see young man, explain to me what a good deed is. - Sir, little Langlumé, who is the son of a stockbroker, told me that his papa had taught him that a good deed is one that shows profit. (Un cours de morale moderne. - Voyons, jeune homme, expliquez-moi ce que c'est qu'une bonne action?... - Mossieu, le p'tit Langlumé, qui est le fils d'un agent de change, m'a dit que son papa lui avait appris qu'une bonne action est celle qui est au-dessus du pair!), number from the series Parisian Sketches (Croquis Parisiens)
Date
1857
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
7 11/16 x 9 7/8 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1985.69
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

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To 1985, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); March 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. 2920

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