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Come and see! look at your wretched son... look at his masterpiece.... you'll need to do something.... he's got to get dressed up again... we will never be able to leave.... what an imp!

Come and see! look at your wretched son... look at his masterpiece.... you'll need to do something.... he's got to get dressed up again... we will never be able to leave.... what an imp!
(Viens voir!... ton marsouin d'enfant; viens voir son chef d'œuvre!!.. il es propre, vas!!.. faut encore l'habiller; nous ne partirons jamais.... Cré galopin!!... )
(1839)
plate no. 2 from the Moeurs conjugales (Marital etiquette) series

Medium
hand-coloured lithograph and gum arabic on buff paper

Measurements
23.5 × 22.8 cm irreg. (image) 28.1 × 22.8 cm (image and text) 35.9 × 27.9 cm irreg. (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Paris, France

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Delteil 625 iv/iv

Edition
4th of 4 states

Printing/Publishing
printed by Aubert & Cie, Paris; published by Le Charivari, Paris

Inscription
printed in ink l.r.: Imp. d'Aubert & Cie (. under ie)
printed in ink l.c.: Par Daumier.
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: h.D.
printed in ink l.r.: Au Bureau du Charivari 16 R du Croissant

Accession Number
1353A-4

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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