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What a coincidence. I used to embrace four waists just like these during my lifetime. Fifine, my first! Cocotte, that little devil! The big Mimi! And my wife up there in the corner.
C'est unique! j'ai pris quatre tailles, juste comme celles là dans ma vie; Fifine ma première! Cocotte, cette gueuse de Cocotte! la grande Mimi, et mon épouse là haut dans le coin. [It's unique! I had my arms around these four waists in my life: Fifine, my first one, Cocotte, that little tart, big Mimi, and my wife up there in the corner!] 27 from "Emotions parisiennes" in Le Charivari, February 7, 1840
What a coincidence. I used to embrace four waists just like these during my lifetime. Fifine, my first! Cocotte, that little devil! The big Mimi! And my wife up there in the corner.
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
1840
Medium/Technique
Lithograph, second state
Dimensions
Sheet: 30.6 x 22.2 cm (12 1/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1972.29
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Delteil 0711, II; H.D. 1656
Descriptionimpression from Le Charivari
InscriptionsSigned on stone, l.l. h.D.; c. Émotions parisiennes; u.r. 27
ProvenanceBy 1899, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of Babcock to the MFA. (Accession date: March 26, 2015)