Voulez-vous de l'or...? (Do you want gold...?), plate 81 from the series Caricaturana
Artist/Maker
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808–1879)
Date1838
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 9 15/16 × 9 1/16 in. (25.2 × 23 cm)
Sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 in. (34.9 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 in. (34.9 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGeneral Acquisitions Fund
PortfolioCaricaturana [plate 81]
Object number1944.189.13
Status
Not on viewRobert Macaire and his sidekick Bertrand are hawking their wares on a street corner. Macaire encourages passersby to get rich quickly by speculating on industrial commodities. <
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> Voulez-vous de l’or ; voulez-vous de l’argent, voulez-vous des diamans, des millions, des milliasses ? Approchez, faites-vous servir .......... Baoud ! Baoud ! Baoud-boud-boud !! Voici du bitume, voici de l’acier, du plomb, de l’or, du papier, voici du ferrrrrr gallllllvanisé .......... Venez, venez, venez vite, la loi va changer, vous allez tout perdre, dépechez-vous, prenez, prenez vos billets ! prenez vos billets !! (Chaud, chaud, la musique.) Baoud ! Baoud !! Baoud-baoud-baoud !! Baoud ! Baoud !!<
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> Do you want gold; do you want silver, do you want diamonds, millions, trillions? Step right up and be served... Boom! Boom! Boom-boom-boom!! We’ve got bitumen; we’ve got steel, lead, gold, paper; we’ve got gaaalllvanized iirrron... Step right up, hurry, the law is going to change, you’ll lose everything, hurry up, buy, buy your bonds! Buy your bonds!! Hot, hot, the music.) Boom! Boom!! Boom-boom-boom!! Boom! Boom!<
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Exhibition History
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> Voulez-vous de l’or ; voulez-vous de l’argent, voulez-vous des diamans, des millions, des milliasses ? Approchez, faites-vous servir .......... Baoud ! Baoud ! Baoud-boud-boud !! Voici du bitume, voici de l’acier, du plomb, de l’or, du papier, voici du ferrrrrr gallllllvanisé .......... Venez, venez, venez vite, la loi va changer, vous allez tout perdre, dépechez-vous, prenez, prenez vos billets ! prenez vos billets !! (Chaud, chaud, la musique.) Baoud ! Baoud !! Baoud-baoud-baoud !! Baoud ! Baoud !!<
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> Do you want gold; do you want silver, do you want diamonds, millions, trillions? Step right up and be served... Boom! Boom! Boom-boom-boom!! We’ve got bitumen; we’ve got steel, lead, gold, paper; we’ve got gaaalllvanized iirrron... Step right up, hurry, the law is going to change, you’ll lose everything, hurry up, buy, buy your bonds! Buy your bonds!! Hot, hot, the music.) Boom! Boom!! Boom-boom-boom!! Boom! Boom!<
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Satire and Sympathy: Daumier’s Human Comedy
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 6, 1980 - March 9, 1980 )
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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