“Sir . . . Sir . . . Siiir . . . Christ, it’s annoying to have the runs when the supervisor is supervising!,” plate 13 from Professors and Rascals

1846

Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879

Honoré Daumier’s satirical works capture comic moments in daily life; the series Professors and Rascals illustrates scenes from elementary school classrooms. In this print, a young boy desperately attempts to summon the teacher’s attention to be excused to the bathroom, but the teacher is asleep. In another, a student grimaces after a teacher finds a novel smuggled inside a textbook. Lithographs such as these, and their accompanying captions, were published widely in magazines in 19th-century France.

Status: On View, Gallery 225
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Title: “Sir . . . Sir . . . Siiir . . . Christ, it’s annoying to have the runs when the supervisor is supervising!,” plate 13 from Professors and Rascals
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1846
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 18 × 25.4 cm (7 1/8 × 10 in.); Sheet: 24.7 × 33 cm (9 3/4 × 13 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison
Reference Number: 1952.38
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Delteil 1450 II/II

Hazard-Delteil 2425

Daumier Register 1450

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