Ayant eu l'heureuse idée d'aller passer le printemps à la campagne.
Title (alt.):
Having had the happy idea of spending springtime in the country.. Charivari
Description:
A couple has gone to the countryside for their spring vacation, unfortunately it is raining. The New York Times published in its issue of Feb. 15, 1918 an article "An Exhibition of Prints from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts". It describes the Museum's decision to sell duplicates of their collection on Feb. 19. Among other artists they were also selling prints by Daumier. A description of the lithograph is as follows: "... Lovers of Daumier will particularly relish his drawing of a couple who have had the happy idea of going to the country for a Spring vacation, and sit well wrapped up at the window watching the storm-beaten landscape. It is a brilliant example of his happiest style in which the dreariest of human commonplace is turned to sparkling comedy."
Copyright restrictions may apply. For permission to copy or use this image, contact the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis University Libraries. The following credit line must be included with each item used: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, May 19, 1856.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
