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“- Yes, my dear Badoulard... I will open a department store even more philanthropic and greater than anything that existed up to now.... it will carry the complete set of articles at half price... someone can come in as naked as a new born baby and leave fully dressed, including cane, umbrella and cigarette lighter! - But then you will ruin all the small little shops in the neighborhood! - What do I care, as long as its all done in the name of humanity!, plate 27 from Les Philantropes Du Jour
Honoré Victorin Daumier
- Date
- published February 26, 1845
- Medium
- Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper (sheet folded to form four pages), with text added in another hand and letterpress verso (and recto when unfolded)
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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Robert: “- 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 either tonight or latest tomorrow morning. - About time... I urgently need a new pair of boots,” plate 6 from Robert Macaire
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“- Sir, I would like to subscribe for the earth quake at Batignolles..... here are two Francs.... but put in properly my name and address in your newspaper, Rigolard - Philanthropist, stationer at rue St. Honoré 345, offering clocks and statues by Dantan, Bohemian glass, English riding sticks, German chemical matches and generally everything that does not really concern this matter,” plate 6 from Les Philantropes Du Jour
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A New Way to Float Down the River of Life. - Radiguet you rascal, to hell with you, your boat and your new invention.... it is your fault that the entire outing went down the drain. - Come, come now.... no reason to scream hell. I am just angry about my boot-maker... since my shoes are being filled with water coming from the holes in the pockets of my pants., plate 3 from Les Canotiers Parisiens
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“- Sir, you who are so good, can't you get me small position?.... I am able to furnish you the best references on my honesty.... - You have always remained honest?... But in that case, my worthy man, why the devil have you come to me? You ought to know that I concentrate all my business and all my charities on this highly interesting class of freed convicts! Why don't you go and steal something or at least kill a bit... and once you are out of Toulon-prison, come and see me... I'll be delighted to offer you a helping hand!,” plate 19 from Les Philantropes Du Jour
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Exploiting friendship. “My dear Alphonse, I've invited these gentlemen, my friends, to dine at your home. I would like them to taste our champagne, we'll laugh... wait a minute! I've an idea. What if we went to the wood? We could take your barouche and you could lend us some clothes as we only came to pay a simple visite... In the meantime, why don't you give us some cards and some Napoleons to pass the time. Eh? My good Alphonse, dear chap. How about it?,” plate 58 from Caricaturana
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"Oh! It is as if we were there: the tall one opens her corset and the little one is looking for a flea!," plate 27 from Types Parisiens
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“- Sue him.....sue him..... That would be a good trick to play on your neighbour... it would eat up all his savings, at least 100 écus.... - Yes but I would also have to eat into my savings and I really have no appetite for that....,” plate 29 from Les Gens De Justice
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Abuse of article 214 of the civil law. “My lady wife, you let me want for everything, you only allow me a miserable pension of three thousand francs, you throw me out of your door like a beggar, and, what is more, you want to drive me away from Paris, exile me, deport me!... No! No! I won't leave France! I won't! I won't!!... Listen, I owe my friend Bertrand 10'000 Fr., it's a gambler's debt, a debt of honor, I owe my cook 525 Fr. and ten francs for my chambers, a total of 10'535 Fr. Let me have a few thousand francs more to take my mind off my domestic worries and, on my word of honor, I won't pester you any longer,” plate 50 from Caricaturana
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“- Oysters at 25 sous a dozen, horrible!... Even if you gave me 100 sous to eat half a dozen, I would not allow myself such an expense,” plate 18 from Actualités
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“- I would have bet on it… instead of taking him to see Séraphin you take him to a drama.... it's bad enough for adults already, poor little thing!... - Don't worry Madame, this is the way children are enjoying themselves,” plate 34 from Moeurs Conjugales
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"- My God! Madame Bombec, what happened to you? - Don't mention it, my dear, it's horrible. The world is going from bad to worse, I would rather be janitor at the botanical garden! You know that Bézuchet from the fifth floor, the one that always insists that her good-for-nothing daughter who is fat around the hips has become..... I only replied: Ah, well! - And that's the person who… - Of course, even a blind man can see that!,” plate 30 from Types Parisiens
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Actualités: L'Ouverture du second théatre français. Mr. tout est plein vous ne trouveriez pas même un place au paradis! si vous voulez revenir dans un quinzaine, peut-être que nous en aurons!
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