Husband: “My dear, how about a first kiss on my chin?” The wife (aside): “To think that I am married to this face!,” plate 21 from Moeurs Conjugalesa

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Title

Husband: “My dear, how about a first kiss on my chin?” The wife (aside): “To think that I am married to this face!,” plate 21 from Moeurs Conjugalesa

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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Published 1840

Medium

Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso

Dimensions

Image: 23.5 × 21.1 cm (9 5/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36.4 × 25.5 cm (14 3/8 × 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles H. Worcester

Reference Number

1929.665

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