A father tries to force his son into the swimming pool in order to teach him how to swim. The child is refusing emphatically out of fear. According to information by Provost one of the "Bathing Boats", called "Petit, Ecole de Natation" was moored very close to Daumier's house at the Quai d'Anjou on the river Seine. This print
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
3rd state.
Published in: Le Journal Amusant, August 4, 1866.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
