Plate 41: Robert Macaire architecte, 1838. Creator: Honore Daumier.

Plate 41: Robert Macaire architecte, 1838. Creator: Honore Daumier.

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Plate 41: Robert Macaire architecte, 1838. Comment, Mr Macaire, cette maison qui ne devait me coûter, d'aprés votre devis, que 70.000 f. va me revenir à plus de trois cent mille!... - Que voulez-vous, ce n'est pas ma faute, vous faites percer au midi une croisée que nous devions ouvrir au nord; vous ne voulez plus que quatre étages au lieu de cinq; nous devions couvrir en zinc, nous ne couvrons plus qu'en ardoise. Je ne puis répondre que de mon projet, vous le changez, ça vous regarde. (Robert Macaire architect. - How's that, Mr. Macaire? This house, which according to your estimate should only have cost me 70,000 francs, will now cost me more than three hundred thousand! - What can I say? It's not my fault! You had a casement window which we should have opened up in the north wall cut through the south wall, you only want four floors instead of five and what is more, whereas we should have roofed in zinc you now want us to roof only in slate! I can only reply that you have changed my project and that's your affair.) From 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires, 1838.


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Creator
  1. Honore Daumier, attributed to: French: Artist, caricaturist, sculptor

Medium
  1. Lithograph

Picture Type
  1. Caricature
  2. Satire

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File Size : 30,469kb


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  1. 3-079-488
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