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Friendship With a Great Chemist is Not Always a Godsend… “I am so sure of my findings that I will now poison my best friend, Mr. Coquardeau, and I will retrieve arsenic in his eyeglasses,” plate 39 from Émotions Parisiennes
1841
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper, with letterpress verso
- Dimensions
- Image: 22.6 × 19 cm (8 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 31.5 × 24.5 cm (12 7/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1989.637.30
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. Friendship With a Great Chemist is Not Always a Godsend… “I am so sure of my findings that I will now poison my best friend, Mr. Coquardeau, and I will retrieve arsenic in his eyeglasses,” plate 39 from Émotions Parisiennes. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Friendship With a Great Chemist is Not Always a Godsend… “I am so sure of my findings that I will now poison my best friend, Mr. Coquardeau, and I will retrieve arsenic in his eyeglasses,” plate 39 from Émotions Parisiennes — Honoré Daumier. 1841.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper, with letterpress verso. Dimensions: Image: 22.6 × 19 cm (8 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 31.5 × 24.5 cm (12 7/16 × 9 11/16 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.