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Des huîtres à vingt-cinq sous la douzaine quelle horreur !... (Twenty-five cents for a dozen oysters? That's outrageous!...), from the series Les Actualités
Des huîtres à vingt-cinq sous la douzaine quelle horreur !... (Twenty-five cents for a dozen oysters? That's outrageous!...), from the series Les Actualités

Des huîtres à vingt-cinq sous la douzaine quelle horreur !... (Twenty-five cents for a dozen oysters? That's outrageous!...), from the series Les Actualités

Artist/Maker (French, 1808–1879)
Date1866
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 9 7/16 × 8 1/8 in. (24 × 20.6 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 1/16 in. (29.9 × 23 cm)
Credit LineElisabeth Lotte Franzos Bequest
PortfolioLes Actualités (Current Events)
Object number1958.84
Status
Not on view
More Information
—Des huîtres à vingt-cinq sous la douzaine quelle horreur ! ... mais on me donnerait cent sous pour en manger seulement six que je ne me permettrais pas une pareille dépense.<
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> —Twenty-five cents for a dozen oysters? That’s outrageous!... Even if you gave me one hundred cents to eat six of those oysters, I wouldn’t think of allowing myself such an expense.<
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ProvenanceElisabeth Lotte Franzos [1881-1957], Vienna and Washington DC; by bequest 1958 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OHExhibition 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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