Plate 41: Robert Macaire, architect, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires
- How's that, Mr. Macaire? This house, which according to your estimate should only have cost me 70,000 Fr, 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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Plate 41: Robert Macaire, architect, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires
- Series/Portfolio: 'Caricaturana'
- Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
- Author: Charles Philipon (French, Lyons 1800–1862 Paris)
- Printer: Aubert et Cie
- Printer: Junca
- Publisher: Aubert et Cie
- Date: 1838
- Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
- Dimensions: Image: 9 7/16 × 8 7/8 in. (24 × 22.5 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/16 × 10 3/16 in. (34.1 × 25.9 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953
- Object Number: 53.693.38
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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