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Ever since Virginie won the seventh honourable mention for poetry at the Académie Française, it has to be me, me, a captain in the National Guard, who counts the sheets to give to the laundress every Saturday . . . and I do it because if I don't, my wife will douse my head! (Depuis que Virgine a obtenu la septième accessitde poésie à l'Académie française il faut que ce soit moi . . . moi capitaine de la garde nationale . . . qui compte tous les samedis le linge à donner à la blanchisseuse . . . et je le fais parce que sans cela ma femme me laverait la tête! . . . ), number 24 from the series The Bluestockings (Les Bas-Bleus)

Ever since Virginie won the seventh honourable mention for poetry at the Académie Française, it has to be me, me, a captain in the National Guard, who counts the sheets to give to the laundress every Saturday . . . and I do it because if I don't, my wife will douse my head! (Depuis que Virgine a obtenu la septième accessitde poésie à l'Académie française il faut que ce soit moi . . . moi capitaine de la garde nationale . . . qui compte tous les samedis le linge à donner à la blanchisseuse . . . et je le fais parce que sans cela ma femme me laverait la tête! . . . ), number 24 from the series The Bluestockings (Les Bas-Bleus)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
Ever since Virginie won the seventh honourable mention for poetry at the Académie Française, it has to be me, me, a captain in the National Guard, who counts the sheets to give to the laundress every Saturday . . . and I do it because if I don't, my wife will douse my head! (Depuis que Virgine a obtenu la septième accessitde poésie à l'Académie française il faut que ce soit moi . . . moi capitaine de la garde nationale . . . qui compte tous les samedis le linge à donner à la blanchisseuse . . . et je le fais parce que sans cela ma femme me laverait la tête! . . . ), number 24 from the series The Bluestockings (Les Bas-Bleus)
Date
1844
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
9 1/4 x 7 3/16 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1986.297
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. 1244

  • Daumier Lithographs: Characters and Caricatures: Chazen Museum of Art, 12/23/2016–2/19/2017
  • Page Turners: Women and Letters, 16th-20th Centuries: Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 1/21/2016–5/22/2016

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