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The image shows three individuals - two adults and a child. The woman on the left is pushing the man while pulling a door handle. The man is stumbling backward, and a child is holding onto his leg. The setting includes doors and a sketch of a picture frame on the wall, with a curtain or textured wall as the background.
National Gallery of Art · Print
Ah! vous êtes mon mari, ah! vous êtes le maître...
Honoré Daumier
- Date
- 1849
- Medium
- lithograph in black on newsprint
- Dimensions
- image: 24.5 x 19.3 cm (9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.) sheet: 35.9 x 24.8 cm (14 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 1991.150.94
- Credit line
- Gift of William B. O'Neal
- Time span
- 1826 to 1850
- Department
- CG-E
Portfolio and series
- Series
- Les Femmes Socialistes
Subjects and terms
- French
- lithograph
- social criticism
- genre
Provenance
Professor William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA; gift 1991 to the National Gallery of Art.
Inscription
across top printed: LES FEMMES SOCIALISTES. 7.; lower left plate: h.D.; lower right plate: 1301; below image, across bottom printed: Chez Aubert Pl. de la Bourse Imp. Aubert & C.ie; below image, across bottom printed: --Ah! vous etes mon mari, ah! vous etes la maître...... eh! bien moi, j'ai le droit de vous flanquer à / la porte de chez vous..... Jeanne Derouin me l'a prouvé hier soir!.... allez vous expliquer avec elle!....; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 40 / 1924
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