“Sir . . . Sir . . . Siiir . . . Christ, it’s annoying to have the runs when the supervisor is supervising!,” plate 13 from Professors and Rascals

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“Sir . . . Sir . . . Siiir . . . Christ, it’s annoying to have the runs when the supervisor is supervising!,” plate 13 from Professors and Rascals

Honoré Victorin Daumier

Date
1846
Medium
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
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Honoré Daumier’s satirical works capture comic moments in daily life; the series Professors and Rascals illustrates scenes from elementary school classrooms. In this print, a young boy desperately attempts to summon the teacher’s attention to be excused to the bathroom, but the teacher is asleep. In another, a student grimaces after a teacher finds a novel smuggled inside a textbook. Lithographs such as these, and their accompanying captions, were published widely in magazines in 19th-century France.

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