Le TERRIBLE RÉGISSEUR. - Comment vous me dites que vous avez manqué la répétition aujourd'hui parce que vous avez posé des sangsues à votre mère?... - Oui, monsieur! - Mais il y a trois mois, en entrant ici, vous m'avez dit que vous étiez orpheline... c'est la première fois, dans ma longue carrière dramatique, que je vois poser des sangsues a une personne morte.

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Title:
Le TERRIBLE RÉGISSEUR. - Comment vous me dites que vous avez manqué la répétition aujourd'hui parce que vous avez posé des sangsues à votre mère?... - Oui, monsieur! - Mais il y a trois mois, en entrant ici, vous m'avez dit que vous étiez orpheline... c'est la première fois, dans ma longue carrière dramatique, que je vois poser des sangsues a une personne morte.
Title (alt.):
THE TERRIBLE DIRECTOR. - You are telling me that you have missed today's rehearsal because you had to set leeches onto your mother?... - Yes sir. started here, you told me that you were an orphan... this is the first time, in my long dramatic career, that I have seen someone put leeches on the body of a dead person.. Charivari
Description:
An actress tells her director that she needs to miss rehearsal in order to attend to her sick mother. He replies that when he hired her three months ago she had told him that she was an orphan. LES MOMENTS DIFFICILES DE LA VIE, a series of 7 prints numbered from 1 to 6, (nr. 6 was used twice). The series appeared between March 12 and July 6,1864 in the CHARIVARI. In plate 2 and 6 the series title is “LES MOMENS DIFFICILES DE LA VIE” (the “T” is missing).
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1864
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Actors
France--History--1848-1870
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 30.5 x 29 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/3699
Terms of Use:
Copyright restrictions may apply. For permission to copy or use this image, contact the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis University Libraries. The following credit line must be included with each item used: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, April 2, 1864.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD3276