Caricaturana: Piété Filiale
Date1838
Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1808–1879)
Illustration CitationLe Charivari, November 25, 1838
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 12 5/16 × 9 9/16 in. (31.3 × 24.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-417
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe caption translates to read:Filial Piety.
What a frightful day, gentlemen, for the shareholders, the administrators, the directors, the simpletons of our industrial society... a day when each of us goes down crying '"er grace the limited partnership is dying... her grace the limited partnership is dead" ... Alas! It's true. This generous lady is dead... very dead... one couldn't be deader!!... Saint Bérain, the great patron saint of downfall, receive in heaven the soul of our communal lady. She was like you, a martyr of political strife... gentlemen, I've opened a share subscription at my home for the erection of a mausoleum which will bear the words: "To the mother of all Robert Macaires." She was worthy of the pantheon, but she died in insolvency...
