“- 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

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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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