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“- Arthur, you had promised me a throne and all you did is put me behind a counter. - Eloise, remember Napoleon's definition of a throne: 'four boards covered with a carpet.' You are sitting on six boards and a cushion,” plate 36 from Moeurs Conjugales
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“- Arthur, you had promised me a throne and all you did is put me behind a counter. - Eloise, remember Napoleon's definition of a throne: 'four boards covered with a carpet.' You are sitting on six boards and a cushion,” plate 36 from Moeurs Conjugales

Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808-1879 · published April 11, 1841 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso

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Credit line“- Arthur, you had promised me a throne and all you did is put me behind a counter. - Eloise, remember Napoleon's definition of a throne: 'four boards covered with a carpet.' You are sitting on six boards and a cushion,” plate 36 from Moeurs Conjugales. published April 11, 1841. Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808-1879. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Charles H. Worcester. CC0.

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