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“- Arthur, you had promised me a throne and all you did is put me behind a counter. - Eloise, remember Napoleon's definition of a throne: 'four boards covered with a carpet.' You are sitting on six boards and a cushion,” plate 36 from Moeurs Conjugales
Honoré Victorin DaumierLinkedCulture matchlcp-fe10ac0cfdd9
- Date
- published April 11, 1841
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 3397
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- Gift of Charles H. Worcester
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