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–Come on, you scoundrel, come on! –Just you wait, you crook! –Oh come on Alfred, after all you've known each other for some twenty years!, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Petit Journal pour Rire, March 8, 1874

Honoré Daumier

March 8, 1874

–Come on, you scoundrel, come on! –Just you wait, you crook! –Oh come on Alfred, after all you've known each other for some twenty years!, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Petit Journal pour Rire, March 8, 1874 by Honoré Daumier

Medium

Lithograph on newsprint; third state of three

Dimensions

Image: 6 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (15.6 × 24.2 cm) Sheet: 8 7/16 × 12 1/4 in. (21.4 × 31.1 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953

Accession Number

53.622.49

Tags

SatireMen

About the Artist

Honoré Daumier · 18101879

Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879) was a prolific French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor whose works offered incisive commentary on the social and political life of 19th-century France. Known as the 'Michelangelo of Caricature,' Daumier produced over 4,000 lithographs, 500 paintings, 1,000 drawings, and 100 sculptures during his lifetime. His biting political satire led to his imp...

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