Plate 41: Robert Macaire, architect, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

Aubert et Cie|Junca|Aubert et Cie|Charles Philipon|Honoré Daumier

1838 · Lithograph on wove paper · Drawings and Prints

Plate 41: Robert Macaire, architect, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires — Aubert et Cie|Junca|Aubert et Cie|Charles Philipon|Honoré Daumier

- How's that, Mr. Macaire? This house, which according to your estimate should only have cost me 70,000 Fr, will now cost me more than three hundred thousand! - What can I say? It's not my fault! You had a casement window which we should have opened up in the north wall cut through the south wall, you only want four floors instead of five and what is more, whereas we should have roofed in zinc you now want us to roof only in slate! I can only reply that you have changed my project and that's your affair.

Artist: Aubert et Cie|Junca|Aubert et Cie|Charles Philipon|Honoré Daumier
Date: 1838
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953