Here is a nice state of affairs! In the evenings his Lordship enjoys himself reading and then falls asleep; when he wakes up, he takes his book; at four o'clock he returns from his office and asks me for his book, and then he insists that nothing can amuse me. What a life! (En voilà un genre agréable! monsieur s'amuse à lire le soir et il s'endort; quand il se réveille il prend son livre; à quatre heures il revient de son bureau, il me demande son volume, et il prétend que rien ne m'amuse.), number 57 from the series Marital Manners (Mœurs Conjugales)

Here is a nice state of affairs! In the evenings his Lordship enjoys himself reading and then falls asleep; when he wakes up, he takes his book; at four o'clock he returns from his office and asks me for his book, and then he insists that nothing can amuse me. What a life! (En voilà un genre agréable! monsieur s'amuse à lire le soir et il s'endort; quand il se réveille il prend son livre; à quatre heures il revient de son bureau, il me demande son volume, et il prétend que rien ne m'amuse.), number 57 from the series Marital Manners (Mœurs Conjugales)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
Here is a nice state of affairs! In the evenings his Lordship enjoys himself reading and then falls asleep; when he wakes up, he takes his book; at four o'clock he returns from his office and asks me for his book, and then he insists that nothing can amuse me. What a life! (En voilà un genre agréable! monsieur s'amuse à lire le soir et il s'endort; quand il se réveille il prend son livre; à quatre heures il revient de son bureau, il me demande son volume, et il prétend que rien ne m'amuse.), number 57 from the series Marital Manners (Mœurs Conjugales)
Date
1842
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
9 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1986.287
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

To 1986, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); November 1986, 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. 680

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