"Deux chasseurs vivaient en paix: une perdrix survint et voilà la guerre allumée!" (Deux vers de la Fontaine arrangés en une ligne de prose pour les besoins de la circonstance).

Item Information

Title:
"Deux chasseurs vivaient en paix: une perdrix survint et voilà la guerre allumée!" (Deux vers de la Fontaine arrangés en une ligne de prose pour les besoins de la circonstance).
Title (alt.):
Charivari. "Two hunters were living in peace: a partridge passed and behold, the war began!" (Two lines from La Fontaine arranged freely into one line of prose due to the current circumstances).
Description:
Two hunters are fighting. Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a poet who was famous for his fables.
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1854
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Hunters
Men
France--History--1848-1870
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 24.5 x 36.5 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/2860
Terms of Use:
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, January 24, 1854.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD2470