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Satané piallard d'enfant va!... (Confounded squalling brat!...), from Les Bas Bleus

Artist/Maker (French, 1808–1879)
Date1844
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 9 × 7 7/16 in. (22.9 × 18.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 13/16 × 8 1/4 in. (30 × 21 cm)
Credit LineGeneral Acquisitions Fund
PortfolioLes Bas Bleus (The Bluestockings) [plate 14]
Object number1944.189.14
Status
Not on view
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—Satané piallard d'enfant va ! ... laisse moi donc composer en paix mon ode sur le bonheur de la maternité ! …<
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> —C'est bon, c'est bon, ... il va se taire ... je vais aller lui donner le fouet dans l'autre pièce ... (à part) dans le fait, de tous les ouvrages de ma femme c'est bien celui qui fait le plus de bruit dans le monde ! ...<
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> —Confounded squalling brat!... Give me some peace and quiet so I can compose my ode on the joys of motherhood!”<
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> —It’s all right, it's all right... he’ll be quiet... I’m going to go give him a thrashing in the other room…(Aside) The fact is that, of all my wife’s creations, it’s this one that causes the biggest stir in society!<
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Exhibition History
Satire and Sympathy: Daumier’s Human Comedy
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 6, 1980 - March 9, 1980 )
The Human Comedy: Chronicles of 19th Century France
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 6, 2013 - December 22, 2013 )
Collections
  • European