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“- Would you please come back immediately... I do not allow my tenants to receive visitors once I have cleaned the staircase,” plate 1 from Messieurs Les Concierges
1858
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.8 × 26 cm (8 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 27.4 × 35.7 cm (10 13/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1955.1193
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “- Would you please come back immediately... I do not allow my tenants to receive visitors once I have cleaned the staircase,” plate 1 from Messieurs Les Concierges. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“- Would you please come back immediately... I do not allow my tenants to receive visitors once I have cleaned the staircase,” plate 1 from Messieurs Les Concierges — Honoré Daumier. 1858.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 21.8 × 26 cm (8 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 27.4 × 35.7 cm (10 13/16 × 14 1/16 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.