EditorialRobert: "- Well, well! My dear director... how's business?" Bertrand: "- Good, very good, I am quite content. Unfortunately we don't have a penny to continue! - Oh blast! - But an investor still owes us 200,000 Francs... and will come up for signature ...
EditorialRobert: "- Well, well! My dear director... how's business?" Bertrand: "- Good, very good, I am quite content. Unfortunately we don't have a penny to continue! - Oh blast! - But an investor still owes us 200,000 Francs... and will come up for signature ...
EditorialLe Charivari (no. du 23 avril 1837): Caricaturana, plate 44: Robert-Macaire, lawyer, 1837. Honor? Daumier (French, 1808-1879), Aubert. Lithograph, hand colored; sheet: 25.8 x 33.1 cm (10 3/16 x 13 1/16 in.); image: 19.8 x 25.1 cm (7 13/16 x 9 7/8 in.).
EditorialPlate 36 from 'Caricaturana' (Les Robert Macaire). Published in le Charivari, March 19, 1837: Caricaturana (plate 36): From What! From What! Your Dowry?..., 1837. Honor? Daumier (French, 1808-1879), published in Charivari (issue of 19/3/1837), Edouard ...
EditorialPlate 50 from 'Caricaturana' (Les Robert Macaire). Published in le Charivari, May 28, 1837: Caricaturana (plate 50): Breach of Civil Code Article 24, 1837. Honor? Daumier (French, 1808-1879), Edouard Bouvenne (French). Lithograph hand-colored with wate...
EditorialCaricaturana: Pl. 14, Robert Macaire Bookseller (Caricaturana: Pl. 14, Robert Macaire Libraire), 1836. Honor? Daumier (French, 1808-1879). Lithograph; sheet: 36.2 x 27.8 cm (14 1/4 x 10 15/16 in.); image: 25.8 x 21.9 cm (10 3/16 x 8 5/8 in.).
EditorialRobert: "- Well, well! My dear director... how's business?" Bertrand: "- Good, very good, I am quite content. Unfortunately we don't have a penny to continue! - Oh blast! - But an investor still owes us 200,000 Francs... and will come up for signature ...
EditorialRobert Macaire, dentist. "- Damnit Doctor, you pulled out two good teeth and left the two bad ones. - (Robert Macaire aside) Devil!!! ... (loud) Of course.... And for a good reason: there will be enough time to pull out the bad ones. The good ones sure...
EditorialMonsieur Daumier, your Robert-Macaire series is delightful. It's an exact picture of the thieves of our period... the faithful portrait of innumerable crooked characters one finds everywhere - in business, in politics, in bureaucracy, in finance, every...