| Honoré Daumier Tiens, ma femme, v'là mon portrait au Daguerréotype que je te rapporte de Paris..... Pourquoi donc est-ce que tu n'as pas aussi fait faire le mien pendant que tu y étais? ...égoïste va!.... 1846 Lithograph, with applied watercolor 35.6 x 27.6 cm (14 x 10 7/8 ins) George Eastman Museum Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer, 1982.2374.0001 LL/74901 (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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