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“- Your suit fits.... I'll borrow it from you... only, please close the door, I can feel a draft on my back. - Oh blast, the door is shut,..... but you just opened the only suit I have,” plate 5 from Les Amis
1845
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.8 × 18 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/8 in.); Sheet: 35.1 × 27.2 cm (13 7/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1947.628
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “- Your suit fits.... I'll borrow it from you... only, please close the door, I can feel a draft on my back. - Oh blast, the door is shut,..... but you just opened the only suit I have,” plate 5 from Les Amis. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“- Your suit fits.... I'll borrow it from you... only, please close the door, I can feel a draft on my back. - Oh blast, the door is shut,..... but you just opened the only suit I have,” plate 5 from Les Amis — Honoré Daumier. 1845.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 23.8 × 18 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/8 in.); Sheet: 35.1 × 27.2 cm (13 7/8 × 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.