It's flattering in any case to have inspired so many disciples! . . . But it's very vexing, there are too many, competition kills the market and if it continues much longer we shall be overrun, we'll become old fogeys, antiques, we'll starve to death. We'd have to become policemen or friars.  (C'est tout de même flatteur d’avoir fait tant d’élèves !….Mais c’est embétant, y en a de trop, la concurrence tue le commerce et pour peu que ça continue nous serons débordés, nous deviendrons perruques, rococos, nous crêverons de faim, faudra nous faire gendarmes ou capucins…), number 76 from the series Caricaturana

It's flattering in any case to have inspired so many disciples! . . . But it's very vexing, there are too many, competition kills the market and if it continues much longer we shall be overrun, we'll become old fogeys, antiques, we'll starve to death. We'd have to become policemen or friars. (C'est tout de même flatteur d’avoir fait tant d’élèves !….Mais c’est embétant, y en a de trop, la concurrence tue le commerce et pour peu que ça continue nous serons débordés, nous deviendrons perruques, rococos, nous crêverons de faim, faudra nous faire gendarmes ou capucins…), number 76 from the series Caricaturana

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
It's flattering in any case to have inspired so many disciples! . . . But it's very vexing, there are too many, competition kills the market and if it continues much longer we shall be overrun, we'll become old fogeys, antiques, we'll starve to death. We'd have to become policemen or friars. (C'est tout de même flatteur d’avoir fait tant d’élèves !….Mais c’est embétant, y en a de trop, la concurrence tue le commerce et pour peu que ça continue nous serons débordés, nous deviendrons perruques, rococos, nous crêverons de faim, faudra nous faire gendarmes ou capucins…), number 76 from the series Caricaturana
Date
1838
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
8 3/4 x 10 in. Overall
Credit
University Fund purchase
Accession No.
53.1.11
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

2 March 1953, sold by Swetzoff Gallery (Boston, Massachusetts) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Delteil, Loys. "Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XX-XXIX." Paris, 1906-1926. no. 431
  • Madison Art Center. "Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings From The University of Wisconsin Collections." Madison, WI: The Madison Art Association, 1965.
  • Elvehjem Art Center. "French Graphics from the Elvehjem Art Center Collection." Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, 1975. pp. 11, 17, cat. no. 7

  • Daumier Lithographs: Characters and Caricatures: Chazen Museum of Art, 12/23/2016–2/19/2017
  • French Graphics from the Permanent Collection: Elvehjem Art Center, 4/11/1975–5/25/1975
  • Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries: Elvehjem Art Center, 5/11/1973–7/1/1973
  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings from the University of Wisconsin Collections: Madison Art Center, 11/21/1965–12/11/1965

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