Caricaturana: Le Chevalier des Adrets
Date1838
Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1808–1879)
Illustration CitationLe Charivari, February 19, 1838
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 11 1/2 × 9 1/4 in. (29.2 × 23.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-415
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe caption translates to read: The Chevalier des Adrets is the lover of a woman of the world. He is amiable and fervent, he pretends to be passionate and devoted... one day, an alleged bailiff and an alleged bill of exchange fall like a clap of thunder into the midst of the most tender effusion of feeling... "Oh! My God!! The Baron de Wormspire, a so-called friend, has had the impudence to have me thrown into prison... He's ruined my good fortune, separated me from what I love! Oh! Friends!! What are friends?... There's no such thing as a friend!!!..." The poor woman, poor dupe, casts off her jewels, gives him everything she can, borrows, ruins herself, only to discover too late that her knight is only a knight of industry, a right Robert Macaire.
