About This Artwork

Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808-1879)
model by Édouard Bouvenne (French, active 19th century)

“- Isn't it marvellous to have a son who is a lawyer... what an honour for the family... Adolph, I want you to remain dressed like that all day long!...,” plate 21 from Les Bons Bourgeois, 1846

Lithograph, with watercolor, heightened with gum arabic on ivory wove paper
250 x 198 mm (image); 359 x 273 mm (sheet)
Francey and Martin Gecht Fund, 2002.474

Daumier Register 1497 III/III; Delteil 1497 III/III; Hazard-Delteil 874 II/II