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“I can see Monsieur that you are not from Paris. Let me warn you: there are people who look perfectly harmless just like me. They might approach you and rob you!,” plate 21 from Types Parisiens
1840
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 18.5 × 22.8 cm (7 5/16 × 9 in.); Sheet: 24.5 × 32.8 cm (9 11/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1949.965
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “I can see Monsieur that you are not from Paris. Let me warn you: there are people who look perfectly harmless just like me. They might approach you and rob you!,” plate 21 from Types Parisiens. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“I can see Monsieur that you are not from Paris. Let me warn you: there are people who look perfectly harmless just like me. They might approach you and rob you!,” plate 21 from Types Parisiens — Honoré Daumier. 1840.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 18.5 × 22.8 cm (7 5/16 × 9 in.); Sheet: 24.5 × 32.8 cm (9 11/16 × 12 15/16 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.