Le Terrible Régisseur, 1864. Creator: Honore Daumier.

Le Terrible Régisseur, 1864. Creator: Honore Daumier.

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Le Terrible Régisseur, 1864. The scary stage manager. - 'Comment vous me dîtes que vous avez manqué la répétition au jour d'hui parceque vous avez pose des sangsues à votre mère?...' - 'Oui, monsieur!' - 'Mais il y a trois mois, en entrant ici, vous m'avez dit que vous étiez orpheline...c'est la première fois, dans ma longue carrière dramatique, que je vois poser des sangsues à une personne morte'. Stage manager: 'So you're telling me that you missed rehearsal today because you had to put leeches on your mother?...' Actress: 'Yes, sir!' Stage manager: 'But three months ago, when you started here, you told me that you were an orphan...this is the first time, in my long career in the theatre, that I have heard of leeches placed on a dead person'. From Les Moments difficiles de la vie.


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Creator
  1. Honore Daumier, attributed to: French: Artist, caricaturist, sculptor

Medium
  1. Lithograph

Picture Type
  1. Print

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3885x4960
File Size : 56,454kb


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  1. M.91.82.319
  1. 1090004533
  1. 2-997-009
  1. 2997009
  1. M.91.82.319

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