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“- Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait which I brought back for you from Paris... - Why didn't you have mine done while you were there... get lost, you egotist!,” plate 28 from Les Bons Bourgeois
1846
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.9 × 21.4 cm (9 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 35.8 × 27.5 cm (14 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1953.556
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “- Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait which I brought back for you from Paris... - Why didn't you have mine done while you were there... get lost, you egotist!,” plate 28 from Les Bons Bourgeois. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“- Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait which I brought back for you from Paris... - Why didn't you have mine done while you were there... get lost, you egotist!,” plate 28 from Les Bons Bourgeois — Honoré Daumier. 1846.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 24.9 × 21.4 cm (9 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 35.8 × 27.5 cm (14 1/8 × 10 7/8 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.