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Series Title: The Good Bourgeois

What the bourgeois calls a slight distraction

1846

Honoré Daumier

(French, 1808–1879)
publisher

Aubert

Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
lithograph
Support
Cream wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 33.9 x 25.8 cm (13 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1922.282
Catalogue raisonné
Daumier Register / Delteil 1490 ; Hazard-Delteil 867
State
II/II
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

This print was published in Le Charivari (August 30 1846) as plate 14 from the series The Good Bourgeois.
A vertically oriented lithograph in black ink depicts an outdoor scene of two men with light skin tones reading newspapers under trees. At our left, an older man sits hunched over a paper. To the right, a man in a top hat stands reading a large paper labeled REFORME, while another hat rests on a nearby chair. Two more top-hatted figures stand behind them. Text is printed at the top and bottom.

What the bourgeois calls a slight distraction

1846

Honoré Daumier, Aubert

(French, 1808–1879)
France, 19th century

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