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Robert-Macaire architecte. (Caricaturana 41).

  • ARTIST: Honore Daumier

  • PUBLISHER: Published in Album Caricaturana (Les Robert Macaires).

  • MEDIUM: Lithograph,

    DATE: 1838.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 9 1/2 x 8 7/8" (242 x 225 mm) plus title and margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: Robert-Macaire architecte; Chez Aubert, gal.vero doda; Imp.d'Aubert et de Junca. Robert-Macaire architecte. Caricaturana is a series of 100 lithographs, numbered 1-100. They first appeared in Le Charivari between 1836 and 1838. They also were sold in a bound album format with the title "Les Robert Macaires." Each image was printed on heavy wove paper and was offered uncolored for 45 francs and hand colored for 55 francs. Text below title reads, "Comment, Mr. Macaire, cette maison qui ne devait me couter, d’apres votre devis, que 70.000 f. va me revenir a plus de trois cent mille!… - Que voulez-vous, ce n’est pas ma faute, vous faites percer au midi une croisee que nous devions ouvrir au nord; vous ne voulez plus que quatre etages au lieu de cinq; nous devions couvrir en zinc, nous ne couvrons plus qu’en ardoise. Je ne puis repondre que de mon projet, vous le changez, ca vous regarde." <br><br> Translation - "How's that, Mr. Macaire? This house, which according to your estimate should only have cost me 70,000 Fr, will now cost me more than three hundred thousand! -- What can I say? It's not my fault! You had a casement window which we should have opened up in the north wall cut through the south wall, you only want four floors instead of five and what is more, whereas we should have roofed in zinc you now want us to roof only in slate! I can only reply that you have changed my project and that's your affair."

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition, Fine original hand coloring.

  • REFERENCE: DR #395; HD #1030.