# “Sir . . . Sir . . . Siiir . . . Christ, it’s annoying to have the runs when the supervisor is supervising!,” plate 13 from Professors and Rascals

- By: Honoré-Victorin Daumier (French, 1808-1879)
- Date: 1846
- Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image: 18 × 25.4 cm (7 1/8 × 10 in.); Sheet: 24.7 × 33 cm (9 3/4 × 13 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76368)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/8d6ff5e8971831eace56299e674cf8e9.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Honoré Daumier’s satirical works capture comic moments in daily life; the series Professors and Rascals illustrates scenes from elementary school classrooms. In this print, a young boy desperately attempts to summon the teacher’s attention to be excused to the bathroom, but the teacher is asleep. In another, a student grimaces after a teacher finds a novel smuggled inside a textbook. Lithographs such as these, and their accompanying captions, were published widely in magazines in 19th-century France.

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