“- Arthur, you had promised me a throne and all you did is put me behind a counter. - Eloise, remember Napoleon's definition of a throne: 'four boards covered with a carpet.' You are sitting on six boards and a cushion,” plate 36 from Moeurs Conjugales
published April 11, 1841
Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879
France
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso