“- Isn't he cute like that, Dodore... with a little bit of cleaning up, he is just not the same child any more!...,” plate 37 from Les Bons Bourgeois 1847

“Isn't he cute like that, Dodore... with a little bit of cleaning up, he is just not the same child anymore!...,” a lithograph from Honoré Daumier’s series *Les Bons Bourgeois* (1847), satirizes the bourgeois obsession with appearance. The plate depicts a man washing his hands while his wife and child look on, highlighting the superficiality of the middle class through the focus on physical grooming. The image captures Daumier's signature style of social commentary through caricature, using exaggerated features and poses to critique the values of the bourgeois society. *Les Bons Bourgeois* was published in installments between 1847 and 1848, offering a humorous and critical look at the aspirations and contradictions of French society during the mid-19th century.