There goes my wife!! Oh, the wretch, while I'm having a shave she's making a cuckold of me!

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There goes my wife!! Oh, the wretch, while I'm having a shave she's making a cuckold of me!
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There goes my wife!! Oh, the wretch, while I'm having a shave she's making a cuckold of me!

PortfolioPlate 22 from the series "Moeurs conjugales"
Date1840
MediumCrayon lithograph
DimensionsSheet: 240 × 205 mm. (9 7/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Credit LineGiven in Memory of Joseph Katz by his Children
Object number1963.109.51
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Last Updated1/11/24
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Image Not Available for Husband: My dear, how about a first kiss on my chin? The wife (aside): To think that I am married to this face!
Husband: My dear, how about a first kiss on my chin? The wife (aside): To think that I am married to this face!
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1839
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Little rascal! I believe he will have my nose!
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1839
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Lord! ... If I'd only used my brains!
1839
Image Not Available for See him strut with such a style - you'd swear he was an officer of the artillery, and that he was cut out for a great lawyer or powerful business man.
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1839
Image Not Available for Cravings of a pregnant woman
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Monsieur...Monsieur, here's your handkerchief
1842
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A good husband. - A total of 27 Fr. 50 Cts. - Very good. Take the bill to my wife who'll pay you... - (this right beggar Macaire isn't half content to have a wife to pay his debts!)... - Yes, I've an excellent wife who works like a slave, deprives herself of everything, who sacrifices her life for me... a wife who adores me. But I'm not ungrateful. She already has eight children and I'd like her to have twelve... - (Bertrand) There's a happy woman!!!
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Oh hello, how good to see you. - How is your wife? - Just fine. - I did not recognise you in the water… I took you for a lion! - Too kind of you. This is what everybody tells me.
1840
Image Not Available for Inside a Parisian Apartment
Inside a Parisian Apartment
1842