Le DERNIER JOUR DE LA RÉCEPTION DES TABLEAUX. - Saperlotte! - nous voici déjà arrivés, et mon tableau n'est pas fini... je suis fâché d'avoir pris mon commissionnaire à la course, j'aurais mieux fait de le prendre à l'heure!....
Le DERNIER JOUR DE LA RÉCEPTION DES TABLEAUX. - Saperlotte! - nous voici déjà arrivés, et mon tableau n'est pas fini... je suis fâché d'avoir pris mon commissionnaire à la course, j'aurais mieux fait de le prendre à l'heure!....
Title (alt.):
THE LAST DAY FOR ENTERING PAINTINGS. - Good grief! - we've already arrived, and my painting is not yet finished... how annoying that I hired my porter by the distance, I should have paid him by the hour!..... Charivari
Description:
An artist is rushing to finish his painting in time to enter it in the exhibition. According to Provost, Daumier "borrowed" the idea for this image from an earlier lithograph produced by Henri Monnier in 1829.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, February 20, 1846.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.