A Country House Near Paris: --Well, my dear... it's a good thing we had the idea to plant a house. Without it, we wouldn't have had shade all summer! from The Pleasures of a Country Holiday, published in Le Charivari

Honoré Daumier

May 24, 1858

A Country House Near Paris: --Well, my dear... it's a good thing we had the idea to plant a house. Without it, we wouldn't have had shade all summer! from The Pleasures of a Country Holiday, published in Le Charivari by Honoré Daumier

Medium

Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

Dimensions

Image: 8 3/8 × 10 7/16 in. (21.3 × 26.5 cm) Sheet: 10 1/2 × 14 11/16 in. (26.7 × 37.3 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962

Accession Number

62.650.455

Tags

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About the Artist

Honoré Daumier · 18101879

Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879) was a prolific French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor whose works offered incisive commentary on the social and political life of 19th-century France. Known as the 'Michelangelo of Caricature,' Daumier produced over 4,000 lithographs, 500 paintings, 1,000 drawings, and 100 sculptures during his lifetime. His biting political satire led to his imp...

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