Un DÉBUT GALANT. La grosse dame.(minaudant) Finissez, Mr. Victor.. vous êtes un véritable Faublas.. songez-donc que nous sommes seuls!. Le Collégien.(à part) Ma foi tant pis, je risque tout.. je vais lui embrasser la main..
Un DÉBUT GALANT. La grosse dame.(minaudant) Finissez, Mr. Victor.. vous êtes un véritable Faublas.. songez-donc que nous sommes seuls!. Le Collégien.(à part) Ma foi tant pis, je risque tout.. je vais lui embrasser la main..
Title (alt.):
A GALLANT BEGINNING. - The fat lady.(mincingly) Oh stop it, Monsieur Victor... you are a real a seductor... forgetting that we are alone!.. - The high school boy(aside): Oh what the heck, I'll risk it all.... I'll kiss her hand!..... Charivari
Description:
Daumier had some experience with bachelorhood himself, since he married at the age of 38. In contrast to his fictitious personality, Monsieur Coquelet, he had however decided for marriage, while Coquelet lived a life of stinginess and loneliness, diligently avoiding any permanent relationship. Daumier not only chastises the loneliness of his bachelor's existence but even more so his avarice and makes him appear ridiculous in his exaggerated affection for his pets, usually an over-fed dog, cat, canary or occasionally a plant on the window sill.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, July 10, 1844.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
