Bourgeois se fesant lire, après diner, quelques chapitres du roman à la mode, ce qui lui procure un grand agrément.... celui de faire un excellent somme.

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Title:
Bourgeois se fesant lire, après diner, quelques chapitres du roman à la mode, ce qui lui procure un grand agrément.... celui de faire un excellent somme.
Title (alt.):
After dinner, a bourgeois indulges in having some chapters of a fashionable romance read to him, which gives him great pleasure.... the pleasure of falling asleep.
Description:
A man falls asleep as his wife is reading to him.
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1847
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Spouses
France--History--Louis-Philip, 1830-1848
Oral reading
Extent:
1 lithograph, color, 34.5 x 25 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/1897
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.
Contact host institution for more information.
Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
3rd state.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD1532