PARISIENS À LA CAMPAGNE. - Nous sommes imprudents de nous aventurer de la sorte..... voilà là-bas quelque chose qui m'inquiète..... je ne sais pas s'il est prudent d'avancer.... - Mais, ce sont, je crois, des meules de blé..... - Je craignais que ce ne soient des huttes de sauvages!.....
Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
1857
Lithograph on vélin mince
Image: 8 3/8 × 10 3/8 in. (21.2 × 26.3 cm)
Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 7/16 in. (27.1 × 36.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, by exchange, in honor of Kathy Hart, Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood Curator of Academic Programming, 1990–2020
2021.23.22
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Provenance
Henri Petiet (1894-1980) (stamped verso). (per Susan Schulman, 8/30/2021)
Catalogue Raisonne
Delteil 2862, II/II (plate 24)
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