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(Insurance fraud) Robert-Macaire renait de ses cendres

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Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879). Insurance fraud. "Robert-Macaire renait de ses cendres". Orig. lithograph, 1838. Plate nr. 21 from 'Caricaturana' Series. Orig. old colouring. With title and 4 lines of French text under the picture. 20,5:28 cm.

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Daumier, Honoré

Aubert et Cie, Editeurs

Paris

1838

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879). Insurance fraud (Robert Macaire). "Robert-Macaire renait de ses cendres". Orig. lithograph, 1838. Plate nr. 21 from 'Caricaturana' Series. Orig. old colouring. With title and 4 lines of French text under the picture. 20,5:28 cm (8 x 11 inch.). Printed on paper sized 26:31,5 cm.

Text under the picture (DeepL translator): "Robert Macaire rising from his ashes. By heavens! The company is unlucky! ... Yesterday I insured my super-glue plant and my flint-lock factory, I had only just sorted things out with you, when fire broke out in four places. Everything's burnt, dissolved, completely cooked. I could only manage to save the sign and my insurance policy. I've lost one hundred thousand three hundred francs, fifty one centimes, which you're now going to repay me ... What a terrible tragedy!!"

Tags: Honoré Daumier, Robert-Macaire renait de ses cendres, Insurance fraud, lithograph, Caricaturana, 1838