Oui, Monsieur, votre air respectable m'enhardit: vous voyez en moi un premier tenor qui a perdu son Ut, mais qui a encore sa femme. Avec dix huit enfans, et plus rien!.. pllll..s rrrr..ein!. confiez moi une quinzaine de livres! - Je n'ai sur moi qu'une pièce de quarante francs! - Je vais vous rendre!

Item Information

Title:
Oui, Monsieur, votre air respectable m'enhardit: vous voyez en moi un premier tenor qui a perdu son Ut, mais qui a encore sa femme. Avec dix huit enfans, et plus rien!.. pllll..s rrrr..ein!. confiez moi une quinzaine de livres! - Je n'ai sur moi qu'une pièce de quarante francs! - Je vais vous rendre!
Title (alt.):
Figaro. Yes, Monsieur, your respectable look makes me grow bolder: you are seeing in front of you a tenor who has lost his C, but still has his wife. With 18 children, and nothing!...noooo...thhhh....ing!.. please let me have 15 dollars! - I am sorry because I only have 40 francs in coins! - I do not have change!
Description:
A man is asking another for money. This print demonstrates in a rather critical way a new trend in the bourgeoisie during the post industrial-revolution period of Louis-Philippe: "Doing good and talk about it". Daumier criticizes the pseudo-humanitarian attitude of the bourgeois towards the victims of industrialization. The population in Paris had doubled within ten years. Unskilled workers from the provinces were attracted to do menial jobs in the city, especially in the flourishing construction industry hoping to find a decent living for their families. The payment was 1 Franc per day.
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1840
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Conversation pieces
France--History--Louis-Philip, 1830-1848
Begging
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 25 x 33 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/4494
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 Figaro, May 29, 1840.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD582