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Order number: LD 420

Artist: Honoré Daumier
Series: Les Robert-Macaire
Publication: from the book "Les cent Robert-Macaire" (100 Robert-Macaire), 1858

Original text: Un bon mari.
Total 27 f. 50 c. C’est bien ! vous porterez cette note à ma femme qui vous soldera.. – Est-il heureux ce gueux de macaire, sa femme paye ses dettes !. – Oui, j’ai une excellente femme qui travaille comme un nègre, se prive de tout et me sacrifiant sa vie… une femme qui m’adore ! aussi je ne suis pas ingrat, elle a déjà huit enfans je veux qu’elle en ait douze.. – Bertrand, en v’la d’une heureuse !!!
Translation: A good husband.
A total of 27Fr 50Cts. Very good. Take the bill to my wife who'll pay you... (this right beggar Macaire isn't half content to have a wife to pay his debts!)... Yes, I've an excellent wife who works like a slave, deprives herself of everything, who sacrifices her life for me... a wife who adores me. But I'm not ungrateful. She already has eight children and I'd like her to have twelve... (Bertrand) There's a happy woman!!!
Condition: very good
Description: No tears, no folds, no spots. It is a reprint after Daumier from the year 1858 and slightly smaller than the original. The back side is not printed, it is a SUR BLANC.
Illustration size: approx. 4,7 x 7,2 inches
Paper size: approx. 6,7 x 9,8 inches

Price: 135 $