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Monsieur Arthur: “- Oh Pamela! I am burning with love for you!” The husband herbalist: “- A mallow... of the family of Malvaceae... a sedative... I don't believe my friend Arthur has this specimen in the herbarium he asked me to build for him,” plate 2 from Croquades
1851
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.5 × 20.8 cm (9 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 35.2 × 26.2 cm (13 7/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1953.569
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. Monsieur Arthur: “- Oh Pamela! I am burning with love for you!” The husband herbalist: “- A mallow... of the family of Malvaceae... a sedative... I don't believe my friend Arthur has this specimen in the herbarium he asked me to build for him,” plate 2 from Croquades. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Monsieur Arthur: “- Oh Pamela! I am burning with love for you!” The husband herbalist: “- A mallow... of the family of Malvaceae... a sedative... I don't believe my friend Arthur has this specimen in the herbarium he asked me to build for him,” plate 2 from Croquades — Honoré Daumier. 1851.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 24.5 × 20.8 cm (9 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 35.2 × 26.2 cm (13 7/8 × 10 3/8 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.