Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.

Exploiting friendship. “My dear Alphonse, I've invited these gentlemen, my friends, to dine at your home. I would like them to taste our champagne, we'll laugh... wait a minute! I've an idea. What if we went to the wood? We could take…

Honoré-Victorin Daumier (model by Édouard Bouvenne (French, active 19th century))

1837

Medium: Lithograph, with watercolor, heightened with gum arabic on ivory wove paper
Classification: Print
Dimensions: 35.4 × 26.5 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Culture: France
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Francey and Martin Gecht Fund
Rights: Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

About this work

An entourage of ne’er-do-wells attempts to bilk an acquaintance out of food, drink, transportation, and even his fashionable wardrobe! If he humors their demands, his dressing gown may be all that is left to his name, leaving him nothing to wear outside. This unique impression served as a color template for a hand-colored edition of Honoré Daumier’s print.