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“- I'll go public with my business.... this is the right moment... I form a company with a capital of 3 Million Francs..... for the production of artifical plums!.... - I can already see you coming, you will ask me for the kernels,” plate 1 from Les Faiseurs D'affaires
1856
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper, with letterpress verso
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.1 × 24 cm (7 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet: 24.3 × 29.2 cm (9 5/8 × 11 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1935.215
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “- I'll go public with my business.... this is the right moment... I form a company with a capital of 3 Million Francs..... for the production of artifical plums!.... - I can already see you coming, you will ask me for the kernels,” plate 1 from Les Faiseurs D'affaires. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“- I'll go public with my business.... this is the right moment... I form a company with a capital of 3 Million Francs..... for the production of artifical plums!.... - I can already see you coming, you will ask me for the kernels,” plate 1 from Les Faiseurs D'affaires — Honoré Daumier. 1856.
Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper, with letterpress verso. Dimensions: Image: 19.1 × 24 cm (7 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet: 24.3 × 29.2 cm (9 5/8 × 11 1/2 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.