About This Artwork
Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879
“- Arthur, you had promised me a throne and all you did is put me behind a counter. - Eloise, remember Napoleon's definition of a throne: 'four boards covered with a carpet.' You are sitting on six boards and a cushion,” plate 36 from Moeurs Conjugalespublished April 11, 1841
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso
235 x 189 mm (image); 364 x 255 mm (sheet)
Gift of Charles H. Worcester, 1929.672
Daumier Register 659 III/III; Delteil 659 III/III; Hazard-Delteil 2099 II/III
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display