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“- Citizen, you owe me another five sous for your luggage, and I am even generous because if I wanted to I could count your wife as a second piece of luggage,” plate 457 from Actualités
1857
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 20.5 × 25.7 cm (8 1/8 × 10 1/8 in.); Sheet: 27.5 × 36.1 cm (10 7/8 × 14 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1955.1187
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “- Citizen, you owe me another five sous for your luggage, and I am even generous because if I wanted to I could count your wife as a second piece of luggage,” plate 457 from Actualités. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“- Citizen, you owe me another five sous for your luggage, and I am even generous because if I wanted to I could count your wife as a second piece of luggage,” plate 457 from Actualités — Honoré Daumier. 1857.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 20.5 × 25.7 cm (8 1/8 × 10 1/8 in.); Sheet: 27.5 × 36.1 cm (10 7/8 × 14 1/4 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.