Plus souvent que je te conduirai encore au bal de l'Opéra!...je te perds au milieu de la foule et après deux heures des plus mortelles inquiétudes je te vois revenir avec un postillon de Lonjumeau,...Adélaïde je ne me coucherai pas avant que tu ne me dises d’où te ramenait ce postillon! from Paris l'Hiver
Creator
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Date1845
Mediumlithograph on paper
DimensionsImage: 21.9 x 17.5 cm (8 5/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Overall (sheet): 29.8 x 22.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 in.)
Overall (sheet): 29.8 x 22.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Drucker, 1961
Object number60/11.3
ProvenanceIn this lithograph, a man sits in a chair in the middle of a room and is aggravated at his female partner who stands in the background. In the winter, it was common for Parisians to attend the opera. The male figure folds his arms in displeasure, because his partner always returns from the opera with a different man. Her expression suggests that she is rather content by this outcome, while the male figure wears a long costume nose indicating that he is easily duped.
LocationNot currently on display
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French
April 1915-January 1916
Photograph
