- C'est inutile que je vous fasse voir mon appartement..... nous ne louons pas aux mères de famille qui ont des enfants!...
Title (alt.):
Charivari. - It is useless to show you my apartment..... we are not renting to mothers who have children!...
Description:
A doorman is sweeping the stairwell when a woman and child walk in and ask to see the apartment for rent. The doorman replies that it is useless as he doesn't rent to mothers with children. According to Cherpin, the Musée Cantini in Marseille has a lithographic stone of this plate, the authenticity of which doesn't seem to be clear. Special prints were published from this stone stating "après Daumier" (after Daumier). Over a period of 8 years we were able to locate only about twenty stones of which the largest collection, 14 stones attributed to Daumier, were originally at the Musée Cantini in Marseille and were now supposed to be at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Marseille. Two of them were shown in a Daumier exhibition in 1947 together with an old lithographic press. To our knowledge, only two stones are presently in private collections, while the remaining four are spread in museums such as Boston, Bibliothèque Nationale, Hammer Collection etc.
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, July 30, 1856.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
