La Queue au Spectacle
Date1840
Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1808–1879)
Illustration CitationLe Charivari, January 14, 1840
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 11 3/16 × 8 in. (28.4 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-423
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe caption translates to read: A QUEUE AT THE THEATRE.
These ignorants are screaming against this person of authority who is protecting them from being crushed and who spends his life in snow and mud. Such is the fate of a civil servant!
