Une Demande en séparation (Suing for Legal Separation), from the series Les beaux jours de la vie
Artist/Maker
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808–1879)
Date1845
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 10 5/8 × 9 1/16 in. (27 × 23 cm)
Sheet: 12 5/16 × 9 1/8 in. (31.3 × 23.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 5/16 × 9 1/8 in. (31.3 × 23.2 cm)
Credit LineElisabeth Lotte Franzos Bequest
PortfolioLes beaux jours de la vie (Life's Finest Moments)
Object number1958.79
Status
Not on viewUne Demande en séparation.<
> —Mon client n’est pas un de ces maris présomptueux qui viennent se vanter devant vous d’avoir été trompés par leur femme, sans avoir autre chose que de vagues soupçons... grâce au ciel nous avons des preuves... nous en avons à foison, et c’est le front levé, et sans crainte d’un démenti, que monsieur peut annoncer hautement et en tout lieux... qu’il est... qu’il est ... enfin ce qu’il est ! ...<
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> Suing for Legal Separation<
> —My client is not one of those presumptuous husbands who appears before you in order to boast that he has been deceived by his wife and has only vague suspicions for saying so...Thank God, we have proof... ample proof, and it’s with his head held high, and without fear of refutation, that this gentleman can announce openly and publicly... that he is... that he is...well, that he is what he is...<
>
Exhibition History
> —Mon client n’est pas un de ces maris présomptueux qui viennent se vanter devant vous d’avoir été trompés par leur femme, sans avoir autre chose que de vagues soupçons... grâce au ciel nous avons des preuves... nous en avons à foison, et c’est le front levé, et sans crainte d’un démenti, que monsieur peut annoncer hautement et en tout lieux... qu’il est... qu’il est ... enfin ce qu’il est ! ...<
> <
> Suing for Legal Separation<
> —My client is not one of those presumptuous husbands who appears before you in order to boast that he has been deceived by his wife and has only vague suspicions for saying so...Thank God, we have proof... ample proof, and it’s with his head held high, and without fear of refutation, that this gentleman can announce openly and publicly... that he is... that he is...well, that he is what he is...<
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The Human Comedy: Chronicles of 19th Century France
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 6, 2013 - December 22, 2013 )
Collections
- European
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ca. 1897
mid-19th century