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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Exploiting friendship. “My dear Alphonse, I've invited these gentlemen, my friends, to dine at your home. I would like them to taste our champagne, we'll laugh... wait a minute! I've an idea. What if we went to the wood? We could take your barouche and you could lend us some clothes as we only came to pay a simple visite... In the meantime, why don't you give us some cards and some Napoleons to pass the time. Eh? My good Alphonse, dear chap. How about it?,” plate 58 from Caricaturana

1837
Lithograph, with watercolor, heightened with gum arabic on ivory wove paper
35.4 × 26.5 cm (13.9 × 10.4 in)

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An entourage of ne’er-do-wells attempts to bilk an acquaintance out of food, drink, transportation, and even his fashionable wardrobe! If he humors their demands, his dressing gown may be all that is left to his name, leaving him nothing to wear outside. This unique impression served as a color template for a hand-colored edition of Honoré Daumier’s print.

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