“- Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait which I brought back for you from Paris... - Why didn't you have mine done while you were there... get lost, you egotist!,” plate 28 from Les Bons Bourgeois

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Title

“- Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait which I brought back for you from Paris... - Why didn't you have mine done while you were there... get lost, you egotist!,” plate 28 from Les Bons Bourgeois

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1846

Medium

Lithograph in black on white wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 24.9 × 21.4 cm (9 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 35.8 × 27.5 cm (14 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment

Reference Number

1953.556

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