You seem to enjoy doing my work. In exchange I could offer doing your job: I will go for a ride in your coach!, from 'Parisians in the countryside,' published in Le Charivari, March 28, 1865
March 28, 1865
Medium
Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 9 1/2 × 8 1/4 in. (24.1 × 20.9 cm) Sheet: 11 7/16 × 11 3/8 in. (29 × 28.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957
Accession Number
57.650.528
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Art Historical Context
This witty lithograph by Honoré Daumier captures the social satire that made him one of the most influential French artists of the th century. Published in the popular magazine *Le Charivari* on March 28, 1865, the print belongs to his series “Parisians in the Countryside,” which gently mocked city dwellers attempting to enjoy rural life. The dialogue in the title—a worker addressing a bourgeois visitor—highlights the humorous role reversal: the city gentleman seems to relish manual labor, while the laborer jokingly offers to take his coach for a leisurely ride instead. Daumier’s sharp observ...