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Robert Macaire, dentist. “- Damnit Doctor, you pulled out two good teeth and left the two bad ones. - (Robert Macaire aside) Devil!!! … (loud) Of course.... And for a good reason: there will be enough time to pull out the bad ones. The good ones surely would have caused you pain in due time. A dental plate however will not hurt you and is very fashionable right now. Everybody is wearing it, plate 57 from Caricaturana
1838/39
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph with hand-coloring on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 23 × 21.5 cm (9 1/16 × 8 1/2 in.); Sheet: 36.1 × 27.4 cm (14 1/4 × 10 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1944.483
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. Robert Macaire, dentist. “- Damnit Doctor, you pulled out two good teeth and left the two bad ones. - (Robert Macaire aside) Devil!!! … (loud) Of course.... And for a good reason: there will be enough time to pull out the bad ones. The good ones surely would have caused you pain in due time. A dental plate however will not hurt you and is very fashionable right now. Everybody is wearing it, plate 57 from Caricaturana. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Robert Macaire, dentist. “- Damnit Doctor, you pulled out two good teeth and left the two bad ones. - (Robert Macaire aside) Devil!!! … (loud) Of course.... And for a good reason: there will be enough time to pull out the bad ones. The good ones surely would have caused you pain in due time. A dental plate however will not hurt you and is very fashionable right now. Everybody is wearing it, plate 57 from Caricaturana — Honoré Daumier. 1838/39.
Medium: Lithograph with hand-coloring on paper. Dimensions: Image: 23 × 21.5 cm (9 1/16 × 8 1/2 in.); Sheet: 36.1 × 27.4 cm (14 1/4 × 10 13/16 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.