The image shows two men depicted from head to toe in an illustration standing side by side. The man on the left has a solemn expression and wears a dark long coat and a top hat. The man on the right appears more rotund, wears a dark suit with a white shirt underneath, and also a top hat. He holds a walking cane in his right hand. There is a partial view of a door in the background marked with the number '35', and a framed piece of paper with visible but indistinct text hanging on the wall. The background is a muted interior with subtle but textured shading suggesting walls and possibly seating in the far left.

Un Jour de représentation a bénéfice...

1852

Dating: Exact year
Held at: National Gallery of Art
Medium: lithograph
Collection no.: 1943.3.3193
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: NGA Open Access — unrestricted reuseLicense details

Honoré Daumier. Un Jour de représentation a bénéfice.... National Gallery of Art, Washington. Open Access. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression to at most 100,000 bytes; no crop or generated content.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

Un Jour de représentation a bénéfice... — Honoré Daumier. 1852.

Medium: lithograph.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): .

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3193. Rosenwald Collection.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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