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"You know, that sponge you said I lost? well, you put it into Ms. Grimblot's vol-au-vent."
"Dammit! A sponge worth three francs in a forty-sous vol-au-vent!"
Artist
- Name:
- Daumier, Honoré
- Dates:
- 1808-1879
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Humor
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- National Gallery of Art Washington DC
Periodical
- Title:
- Le Charivari
- Author(s):
- Collective work
- Published:
- Paris, 1842
Description
A high-strung kitchen boy breaks a bit of annoying news to a more lackadaisical chef.
This illustration was published in Le Charivari on March 23, 1842. It is the forty-ninth lithograph in a series of fifty titled Types parisiens. Second state of three.
The caption reads in the original French:
— Vous savez bien l’éponge que vous disiez que je l’avais perdue ; eh bien vous l’aviez mise dans le vol-au-vent de madame Grimblot !
— Cré nom ! une éponge de trois francs ; dans un vol-au-vent de quarante sous !
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, black & white, excited, male, periodical, talking, working
