| Honoré Daumier “- Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait which I brought back for you from Paris... - Why didn't you have mine done while you were there... get lost, you egotist!,” 1846 Lithograph 249 x 214 mm (image); 358 x 275 mm (sheet) Art Institute of Chicago William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment, 1953.556 LL/45861 Plate 28 from Les Bons Bourgeois, 1846
(Carlos Gabriel Vertanessian, 12 June 2020) In this series of the Good bourgeois the husband says:
“Here, my woman, here is my portrait I brought from Paris for you”. -“Why is it then, that you did not take one of mine while you were there?, selfish!”.
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