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Exhibition History"People At Work" Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
DimensionsSheet: 12 1/8 × 9 3/16 in. (30.8 × 23.3 cm)
Image: 9 7/8 × 8 3/8 in. (25.1 × 21.3 cm)
Accession Number 1968.62
Classificationsprint
CopyrightPublic Domain
Signedh.D. (l,l plate)
Inscriptions1055 (l,r) IMP. Aubert & Cie (l,l) Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse (l,r) Oui c'est bien fene ma femme!... seulement je trouve que vous l'avez trop flattée (l,c)
Paper/SupportNewsprint
Oui c'est bien fene ma femme!... seulement je trouve que vous l'avez trop flattée (Yes that's certainly my wife--only I find that you have flattered her too much)
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Vous; mon ami! comment vous savez que je suis veuf; après vingt ans de travaux for..... non de ménage: vous voyez que je commence à me refaire et vous me proposez un second mariage..... Ragoulot, voulez-vous me lâcher! (You: my friend! How do you know that I am a widower; after twenty years of work for..... no household; You see I am beginning to rebuild and you offer me a second marriage.....Ragoulot, would you let me go!), no. 10 from the series of ten lithographs, “Vulgarités” ("Vulgarities" 10), 1842
Honoré Daumier
1842
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
"c'est moi, Jean, qui ai vu et qui ai ouï ces choses (It is I, John, who saw and heard these things)" from the portfolio "Apocalypse de Saint-Jean"
Odilon Redon
1899
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
C'est l'y à vous c'hien là?... (Is this your little dog?)
Honoré Daumier
1847
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
(La Femme) Je viens de decouvrer une meche . . ., No. 23 [(Wife) I just discovered a lock of hair. . . No. 23],, "Moeurs conjugales (Marital mores)," as published in Le Charivari
Honoré Daumier
1839-1842
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Il m'aime un peu, bequcoup (He loves me a little, much)
Edmund Aldophe Rudaux
ca. 1895
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Tu la trouve un peu dur..., from Crimes et chatiments
Félix Vallotton
1901
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Modo con que los Antiquos Españoles Cazaban los Toros à Caballo en el Campo (The Way in Which the Ancient Spaniards Hunted Bulls on Horseback in the Open Country), from "La Tauromaquia (The Art of Bullfighting)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1815
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Being a broker is the old "buy'em low, sell 'em high game. After the one o'clock bell, brokers have fifteen minutes to close their market orders. This is done by shouting your bids and positioning your hands. Palms out means sell, palms in means buy. I can assure you it's a fun game to win. San Francisco, California, from the "Working" series
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2006
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Even Stones Have Eyes
Huma Bhabha
2023
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Making A U-Turn, The Lost Child Finds His Way Home
Takashi Murakami
2004
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
C'est la grande revue…
Auguste Raffet
1836
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
A Woman Finds her Husband, Kerch, Crimea, January 1942, from "The Great Patriotic War Portfolio II"
Dmitri Baltermants
2003