“- Yes, my dear Badoulard... I will open a department store even more philanthropic and greater than anything that existed up to now.... it will carry the complete set of articles at half price... someone can come in as naked as a new born baby and leave fully dressed, including cane, umbrella and cigarette lighter! - But then you will ruin all the small little shops in the neighborhood! - What do I care, as long as its all done in the name of humanity!, plate 27 from Les Philantropes Du Jour

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Year

1845

Medium

Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper (sheet folded to form four pages), with text added in another hand and letterpress verso (and recto when unfolded)

Dimensions

Image: 22.4 × 18.7 cm (8 7/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet, folded: 36.8 × 25.2 cm (14 1/2 × 9 15/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago