- Monsieur Prudhomme..... je me noie!... - Très bien!... madame, je vais recueillir..... - Ma personne... oh! merci!.... - Non, madame...., ne nageant point, je vais recueillir vos dernières volontés..... je ne puis faire plus!......
- Monsieur Prudhomme..... je me noie!... - Très bien!... madame, je vais recueillir..... - Ma personne... oh! merci!.... - Non, madame...., ne nageant point, je vais recueillir vos dernières volontés..... je ne puis faire plus!......
Title (alt.):
- Mr. Prudhomme..... I am drowning!... - Very well!... Madame, I will immediately try to save you..... - Save me... oh! thank you!.... - No, Madame...., since I don't know how to swim, I'll try to save your last wishes..... I really can't do more!....... Charivari
Description:
A woman is trying to learn how to swim while Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme watches. As she struggles, he offers to save her, but he can only save her last wishes, not her. Prudhomme impersonated the complacent, corpulent bourgeois of that period and appeared in other prints.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, September 18, 1855.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
