Les plaisirs de l'école de natation, from Croquis Été, published in Le Charivari, June 22, 1858
June 22, 1858
Medium
Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 14 1/8 in. (27.5 × 35.8 cm) Image: 7 11/16 × 10 1/16 in. (19.6 × 25.6 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
62.650.312
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the lively world of mid-19th-century French satire with *Les plaisirs de l'école de natation* (The Pleasures of the Swimming School), a lith from Honoré Daumier's *quis Été* series, published in the satirical newspaper *Le Charari* on June 22, 1858. Attributed to Daumier alongside collaborators Aaron Martinet and Dest, this second-state print captures the humorous antics of men at a swimming school, evoking the carefree spirit of summer. Daumier, a master caricaturist, contributed over 4,000 lithographs to *Le Charivari*, using his keen eye to skewer everyday bourgeois life during Fr...