Je suis un honnête homme!

This pen-and-ink sketch depicts a bathhouse attendant confronting a female customer on a beach, with a tent visible in the background. The handwritten French text records the attendant's complaint: he quoted a price for bathing services when the woman was clothed, but now that she is undressed, he observes there is half the work. The drawing exemplifies the tradition of satirical social commentary descended from 18th-century caricaturists like Rowlandson and Daumier. Working in quick, economical line work typical of newspaper illustration, the artist captures a moment of class friction and commercial negotiation through exaggerated physiognomy and gesture—conventions that would directly influence the development of comic art and sequential illustration throughout the modern period.