The Theaters in August. They dream of a full house crowd arguing over programs and extra folding chairs . . . Don't wake them up! (Les théâtres au mois d'août. Elles rêvent que la salle est comble et qu'on se dispute les programmes et les petits bancs . . . - ne les réveillons pas!), number 6 from the series Summer Sketches (Croquis d'Été)

The Theaters in August. They dream of a full house crowd arguing over programs and extra folding chairs . . . Don't wake them up! (Les théâtres au mois d'août. Elles rêvent que la salle est comble et qu'on se dispute les programmes et les petits bancs . . . - ne les réveillons pas!), number 6 from the series Summer Sketches (Croquis d'Été)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
The Theaters in August. They dream of a full house crowd arguing over programs and extra folding chairs . . . Don't wake them up! (Les théâtres au mois d'août. Elles rêvent que la salle est comble et qu'on se dispute les programmes et les petits bancs . . . - ne les réveillons pas!), number 6 from the series Summer Sketches (Croquis d'Été)
Date
1856
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
7 13/16 x 10 1/8 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1977.486
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. 2847

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