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Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait!
Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait!

Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait!

Series TitleLes Bons Bourgeois
Artist Honoré Daumier (French, 1808 - 1879)
Printer Aubert & Co. (French)
Publisher Aubert & Co. (French)
Date1846
MediumLithograph
DimensionsSheet: 14 15/16 × 10 5/16 inches (37.92 × 26.19 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.68.305
SignedInitialed on original image, lower left, in black pencil: "h.D."; On sheet recto, bottom, in black type: "Chez Aubert & Cie Pl. de la Bourse 29.", "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie."
InscribedTitled on sheet recto, top, in black ink: "LES BONS BOURGEOIS."; Captioned on sheet recto, bottom, in black ink: "- Tiens, ma femme, v'lá mon portrait au Daguerréotype que je te rapporte de Paris ..... / - Pourquoi donc est-ce que tu n'as pas aussi fait faire le mien pendant que tu y étais? ...égoiste va!...." [Translation: Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait which I brought back for you from Paris... - Why didn't you have mine done while you were there...get lost, you egotist!]
MarkingsNumbered on original image, lower right, in black pencil: "933"; On sheet recto, upper right, in black type: "No.28"; On sheet recto, lower right, in pencil: "Deambre 1846".
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DescriptionIllustration published in Le Charivari of an older man and woman standing in a room with an open chest on the floor. The woman holds a framed portrait and looks towards the man.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
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