Une VENTE AUX ENCHÈRES AUX CHAMPS ÉLYSÉES DANS UNE MAISON QUASI-BOURGEOISE OBLIGÉE DE FAIRE DES ÉCONOMIES PAR SUITE DE LA DURETÉ DES TEMPS. - A trente francs le Chapeau!.... faites attention que le plumet seul a coûté plus de vingt-cinq louis!....
Une VENTE AUX ENCHÈRES AUX CHAMPS ÉLYSÉES DANS UNE MAISON QUASI-BOURGEOISE OBLIGÉE DE FAIRE DES ÉCONOMIES PAR SUITE DE LA DURETÉ DES TEMPS. - A trente francs le Chapeau!.... faites attention que le plumet seul a coûté plus de vingt-cinq louis!....
Title (alt.):
Charivari. AN AUCTION IN A MIDDLE CLASS HOUSE ON THE CHAMPS-ELYSÉES, WHOSE OWNER NEEDS TO ECONOMIZE BECAUSE OF THE DIFFICULT TIMES. - Thirty francs for this hat!.... note that the feathers alone once cost twenty-five louis!....
Description:
On February 10, 1851, the Chamber refused to accept higher representation costs claimed by the Prince-President. In this print Daumier suggests that poor Napoléon now needed to sell some of his hats, horses, etc., on auction in order to pay his bills.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state
Published in: Le Charivari, March 10, 1851.
Top part of lithograph is cropped.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
