Title
Ah you say you are spending the night in your office! and you go to Musard with your whores!...
(1840)
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Ah! You say that you spent the night at your office!...
You are telling me that you are spending the night at your office! In reality you are at Musard's with your whores! (Daumier Register) - Alternative title
- Ah tu dis que tu passes la nuit à ton Bureau! et tu vas à Musard, avec des Gourgandines!...
- Date
- (1840)
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- ii of 2
- Dimensions
- 24.5 x 21.0 cm approx. image; 34.5 x 26.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., black ink [inscribed on stone] "h.D.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1990
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 44.1990
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Honoré Daumier
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About
Plate 18 from the 'Mœurs conjugales' ('Conjugal manners') series, published in 'Le Charivari', 8 March 1840
Philippe Musard (1793–1859) was a French composer, who became the artistic director of a series of popular open-air concerts and dances on the Champs-Elysées, which marked the beginning of the Concerts-Musard in the 1830s.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 1990–27 Jan 1991
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Nicholas Draffin, Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Sydney, 1991, p 7.
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