About This Artwork
Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879
“- I'll go public with my business.... this is the right moment... I form a company with a capital of 3 Million Francs..... for the production of artifical plums!.... - I can already see you coming, you will ask me for the kernels,” plate 1 from Les Faiseurs D'affaires1856
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper, with letterpress verso
191 x 240 mm (image); 243 x 292 mm (sheet)
The Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection, 1935.215
Daumier Register 2834 II/II; Delteil 2834 II/II; Hazard-Delteil 1786 II/II
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display

