Caricaturana: Entendons Nous Bien!
Date1838
Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1808–1879)
Illustration CitationLe Charivari, June 10, 1838
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 11 3/4 × 9 1/8 in. (29.8 × 23.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-411
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe caption translates to read:Let's be quite clear.
- Bertrand is going to sneak in and out of the groups at the stock exchange and polish up the tarred bitumen shares, he'll make them sparkle, he'll say they're being snapped up, snatched up all round, that they're rising like balloons... As for you, Baron, you have a certain 'savoir faire', go and buy some for 20%, 30%, even 100% more. I've got the whole lot in my wallet, they won't be able to deliver any, we'll sell them for what we like and providence will do the rest.
- (Bertrand) Forward march against the dupes, let's cash in... fly... etc.
