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Maker(s):Daumier, Honoré Victorin
Culture:French (1808-1879)
Title:Messieurs, je viens offrir...(from Les Bas-Bleus)
Date Made:1844
Type:Print
Materials:lithograph on cream moderately thick smooth paper
Place Made:France
Measurements:Sheet: 13 1/8 in x 10 in; 33.3 cm x 25.4 cm; Image: 9 in x 7 1/4 in; 22.9 cm x 18.4 cm
Accession Number:  SC 2019.16.1.1
Credit Line:Purchased with the Katharine S. Pearce, class of 1915, Fund
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
A woman with a bonnet talking to three men, two seated at a table and one standing holding a paper; social satire; misogyny; anti-femnist propaganda

Label Text:
Transl. of French - Gentlemen, I am offering your paper a serialized novel that I believe will fit perfectly! The title is "Eloa, or eight days of intimate happiness". The first part consists of ten or twelve volumes, written in the manner of Eugène Sue! - Sorry Madame, but this is absolutely frightening! This way your eight days will last at least three years!

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