About This Artwork

Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879

“- How do you know that I am a widower? After twenty years of forced labour, not marriage, I am slowly starting to pull myself together again, and there you are, proposing me a second marriage! Ragoulet, would you please stop holding my hand!,” plate 10 from Vulgarités, 1841

Lithograph in black on white wove paper
239 x 197 mm (image); 331 x 253 mm (sheet)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, 1952.36

Daumier Register 914; Delteil 914 III/V; Hazard-Delteil 2756