Robert: “- Well, well! My dear director... how's business?” Bertrand: “- Good, very good, I am quite content. Unfortunately we don't have a penny to continue! - Oh blast! - But an investor still owes us 200,000 Francs... and will come up for signature either tonight or latest tomorrow morning. - About time... I urgently need a new pair of boots,” plate 6 from Robert Macaire by Édouard Bouvenne, print, 1841

Robert: “- Well, well! My dear director... how's business?” Bertrand: “- Good, very good, I am quite content. Unfortunately we don't have a penny to continue! - Oh blast! - But an investor still owes us 200,000 Francs... and will come up for signature either tonight or latest tomorrow morning. - About time... I urgently need a new pair of boots,” plate 6 from Robert Macaire

Édouard Bouvenne

Year
1841
Medium
Lithograph, with watercolor, heightened with gum arabic on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
35.7 × 27.7 cm (14 1/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago

Cultural & Historical Context

Classification
Print
Culture
France

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