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“- Isn't it marvellous to have a son who is a lawyer... what an honour for the family... Adolph, I want you to remain dressed like that all day long!...,” plate 21 from Les Bons Bourgeois
1846
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph, with watercolor, heightened with gum arabic on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 25 × 19.8 cm (9 7/8 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 35.9 × 27.3 cm (14 3/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2002.474
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “- Isn't it marvellous to have a son who is a lawyer... what an honour for the family... Adolph, I want you to remain dressed like that all day long!...,” plate 21 from Les Bons Bourgeois. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“- Isn't it marvellous to have a son who is a lawyer... what an honour for the family... Adolph, I want you to remain dressed like that all day long!...,” plate 21 from Les Bons Bourgeois — Honoré Daumier. 1846.
Medium: Lithograph, with watercolor, heightened with gum arabic on ivory wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 25 × 19.8 cm (9 7/8 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 35.9 × 27.3 cm (14 3/16 × 10 3/4 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.