# 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…

- By: Honoré-Victorin Daumier (model by Édouard Bouvenne (French, active 19th century))
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Francey and Martin Gecht Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/159321)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/bcd0dd51ca8177bbd364f3a185059754.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0