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Allons messieurs... (Come on, gentlemen...), from the series Les Philantropes du Jour
Allons messieurs... (Come on, gentlemen...), from the series Les Philantropes du Jour

Allons messieurs... (Come on, gentlemen...), from the series Les Philantropes du Jour

Artist/Maker (French, 1808–1879)
Date1844
MediumLithograph
DimensionsSheet: 14 5/16 × 10 1/16 in. (36.4 × 25.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Frederick B. Artz (OC 1916)
PortfolioLes Philantropes du Jour (Philanthropists of the Day)
Object number1937.34
Status
Not on view
More Information
Daumier was suspicious of the new social type of the bourgeois philanthropist. All too often, Daumier suggested, the philanthropist’s motives were self-interested rather than humanitarian.<
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> —Allons messieurs ... allons donc ... disputez-vous c’est bien, mais ne vous battez pas ... songez donc que nous nous sommes réunis pour organiser définitivement notre Société de Paix universelle! ...<
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> —Come on Gentlemen, come on... argue all you want, but don’t hit each other... remember that we have gathered together here to organize once and for all our “Society for Universal Peace”!!<
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Exhibition History
The Human Comedy: Chronicles of 19th Century France
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 6, 2013 - December 22, 2013 )
Collections
  • European
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