Les Beaux Jours de la Vie: Quand on a Son Portrait au Salon
Date1845
Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1808–1879)
Illustration CitationLe Charivari, April 26, 1845.
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 14 3/8 × 9 5/16 in. (36.5 × 23.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-24
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextDaumier's caption translates to read:WHEN ONE'S PORTRAIT IS EXHIBITED AT THE SALON.
(Gentleman): It's flattering, isn't it Eudoxie, to be shown like this in public, and I don't regret the 200 francs it has cost us... there is a man looking at us... he seems to think highly of us!
(Art student): How can anybody have the nerve to sit for a portrait with a face like that!
