Honoré Daumier
1846, 7 December
Tiens, ma femme, v'là mo portrait au Daguerrthotype que je te rapporte de Paris…. [Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait which I brought back for you from Paris]

Lithograph
Réunion des Musées Nationaux - RMN
-Tiens, ma femme, v'la mo portrait au DaguerrÞotype que je te rapporte de Paris . . . .
- Pourquoi donc est-ce tu nas pas aussi fair faire le mien pendant que tu y étas? . . . Egoiste va! . . .
 
- Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait which I brought back for you from Parisà
- Why didn't you have mine done while you were thereà get lost, you egotist!
 
From the series: Les Bons Bougeois, plate 28
Originally published in "le Charivari" (7 December 1846).
 
The Daumier Register by Lilian and Dieter Noack, www.daumier-register.org, DR Number: 1504, LD Number: 1504, HD Number: 881.
 
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