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French, 1808–1879
Lithograph
1856
Gift of Eugene L. Garbaty, 1954.159
In 1855, a new tax defined dogs as taxable luxury items. It was believed that workers’ dogs were dirty disease carriers, and that only well-to-do bourgeois families could give a dog a proper home. When the law went into effect in 1856, almost eighty thousand dogs were declared in Paris alone. Here Daumier imagines the rest of France’s dogs emigrating to neighboring countries in an act of doggie tax evasion. %3C/p%3E&click_thru=http%3A%2F%2Flibbymurphy.com%2Fhumancomedy%2Fcontent%2Femigration%2F){kind=link}
The Human Comedy: Chronicles of 19th-Century France
Émigration
Honoré Daumier French, 1808–1879 Lithograph 1856 Gift of Eugene L. Garbaty, 1954.159
In 1855, a new tax defined dogs as taxable luxury items. It was believed that workers’ dogs were dirty disease carriers, and that only well-to-do bourgeois families could give a dog a proper home. When the law went into effect in 1856, almost eighty thousand dogs were declared in Paris alone. Here Daumier imagines the rest of France’s dogs emigrating to neighboring countries in an act of doggie tax evasion.