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“- Arthur, you had promised me a throne and all you did is put me behind a counter. - Eloise, remember Napoleon's definition of a throne: 'four boards covered with a carpet.' You are sitting on six boards and a cushion,” plate 36 from Moeurs Conjugales

“- Arthur, you had promised me a throne and all you did is put me behind a counter. - Eloise, remember Napoleon's definition of a throne: 'four boards covered with a carpet.' You are sitting on six boards and a cushion,” plate 36 from Moeurs Conjugales

Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
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Date
published April 11, 1841
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso
Dimensions
Image: 23.5 × 18.9 cm (9 5/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 36.4 × 25.5 cm (14 3/8 × 10 1/16 in.)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Credit line
Gift of Charles H. Worcester