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(He is reading a letter) “A date, could it be from the cute Mme Giraud?? Yes, but it could also come from her husband who wants to pinch me…,” plate 8 from Coquetterie
1840
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.8 × 18.2 cm (8 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 34.3 × 26.7 cm (13 9/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1958.204h
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. (He is reading a letter) “A date, could it be from the cute Mme Giraud?? Yes, but it could also come from her husband who wants to pinch me…,” plate 8 from Coquetterie. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
(He is reading a letter) “A date, could it be from the cute Mme Giraud?? Yes, but it could also come from her husband who wants to pinch me…,” plate 8 from Coquetterie — Honoré Daumier. 1840.
Medium: Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 21.8 × 18.2 cm (8 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 34.3 × 26.7 cm (13 9/16 × 10 9/16 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.