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Dry Run After three months of uninterrupted dry exercise, one is practically transformed into a fish, and even the most timid person can now dare to give it a try at the . . . Chinese baths. (La leçon à sec Après trois mois de cet exercice non interrompu, on se trouve réduit à l'état de poisson, et l'être le plus timide, peut se présenter sans crainte . . . aux bains Chinois!), number 19 from the series The Bathers (Les Baigneurs)

Dry Run After three months of uninterrupted dry exercise, one is practically transformed into a fish, and even the most timid person can now dare to give it a try at the . . . Chinese baths. (La leçon à sec Après trois mois de cet exercice non interrompu, on se trouve réduit à l'état de poisson, et l'être le plus timide, peut se présenter sans crainte . . . aux bains Chinois!), number 19 from the series The Bathers (Les Baigneurs)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
Dry Run After three months of uninterrupted dry exercise, one is practically transformed into a fish, and even the most timid person can now dare to give it a try at the . . . Chinese baths. (La leçon à sec Après trois mois de cet exercice non interrompu, on se trouve réduit à l'état de poisson, et l'être le plus timide, peut se présenter sans crainte . . . aux bains Chinois!), number 19 from the series The Bathers (Les Baigneurs)
Date
1841
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
8 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1977.324
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

To 1977, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); December 1977, gifted to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Delteil, Loys. "Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XX-XXIX." Paris, 1906-1926. no. 779
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1985. pp. 49, 53, cat. no. 41

  • Nineteenth-Century Caricatures by Honoré Daumier: The Helen Wurdemann Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1/13/1996–2/11/1996
  • Daumier Lithographs: The Human Comedy: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/27/1985–6/23/1985

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