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“You tramp! I would like to see you drown in your beer! Leaving me alone like that with my three children, he gives me twelve sous, and when he comes back in the evening, he asks for his change!,” plate 48 from Moeurs Conjugales
1842
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.7 × 21 cm (9 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 34.2 × 26.6 cm (13 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1952.27
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “You tramp! I would like to see you drown in your beer! Leaving me alone like that with my three children, he gives me twelve sous, and when he comes back in the evening, he asks for his change!,” plate 48 from Moeurs Conjugales. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“You tramp! I would like to see you drown in your beer! Leaving me alone like that with my three children, he gives me twelve sous, and when he comes back in the evening, he asks for his change!,” plate 48 from Moeurs Conjugales — Honoré Daumier. 1842.
Medium: Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 24.7 × 21 cm (9 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 34.2 × 26.6 cm (13 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.