About This Artwork

Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879

“- How do you find this saint there.... I tried to not make him look too conventional.... The bourgeois: - I quite agree, a Saint never should look short winded,” plate 80 from Les Bons Bourgeois, 1847

Lithograph in black on white wove paper
259 x 210 mm (image); 340 x 257 mm (sheet)
Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund, 1947.639

Daumier Register 1556; Delteil 1556 II/II; Hazard-Delteil 933