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for Approchez, mes amis, ne soyez pas honteux...vous voyez bien que je ne le suis pas moi même! ... vous êtes cinq cents c’est bien... je vais vous distribuer aujourd’hui ces vingt trois cotrets et cette marmite de bouillon, marmite dans laquelle je verse chaque semaine le plus clair de ma fortune! from Les Philantropes du Jour
Approchez, mes amis, ne soyez pas honteux...vous voyez bien que je ne le suis pas moi même! ... vous êtes cinq cents c’est bien... je vais vous distribuer aujourd’hui ces vingt trois cotrets et cette marmite de bouillon, marmite dans laquelle je verse chaque semaine le plus clair de ma fortune! from Les Philantropes du Jour
Creator
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Datec. 1844
Mediumlithograph on paper
DimensionsOverall: 34.9 x 25.7 cm (13 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.)
Image: 23.4 x 20.4 cm (9 3/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Image: 23.4 x 20.4 cm (9 3/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Robert Hunter, 1936
Category
- Prints
Object number2403
ProvenanceOn a cold day, a bourgeois man stands above a crowd of lower class people distributing faggots. To his left, a large pot of soup emits steam while he holds out a wooden spoon. Members of the crowd reach up to catch the faggots and to raise their cups or bowls to get some soup. The bourgeois is trying to help other members of his community, but in the process is flaunting about his deed publicly. He is not shy to tell the people that he is the one helping them, yet for the hundreds of people that have gathered around him, he only provides 23 faggots. In addition, he distributes the goods begrudgingly rather than in earnest. There were several philanthropic societies in the mid-nineteenth century in France; however, their motives were not always good natured, and Daumier’s print is a comment on the ignoble behavior of certain philanthropists.
LocationNot currently on display
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French
April 1915-January 1916
Photograph