Due to their important positions, the ministers Parrieu and Rouher are obliged to spend the summer at the banks of the Seine. They console themselves for not being able to spend their vacation in their beloved mountains, by dancing the Bourrée, a dance from their native country, behind closed doors in the Ministry of Justice. (Attachés par leur grandeur au rivage de la Seine, les ministres Parrieu et Rouher se consolent de ne pouvoir aller passer les vacances dans leurs montagnes en dansant à huit clos dans une des salles du ministère de la Justice, une bourrée de leur pays natal.), number 185 from the series News (Actualités)

Due to their important positions, the ministers Parrieu and Rouher are obliged to spend the summer at the banks of the Seine. They console themselves for not being able to spend their vacation in their beloved mountains, by dancing the Bourrée, a dance from their native country, behind closed doors in the Ministry of Justice. (Attachés par leur grandeur au rivage de la Seine, les ministres Parrieu et Rouher se consolent de ne pouvoir aller passer les vacances dans leurs montagnes en dansant à huit clos dans une des salles du ministère de la Justice, une bourrée de leur pays natal.), number 185 from the series News (Actualités)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
Due to their important positions, the ministers Parrieu and Rouher are obliged to spend the summer at the banks of the Seine. They console themselves for not being able to spend their vacation in their beloved mountains, by dancing the Bourrée, a dance from their native country, behind closed doors in the Ministry of Justice. (Attachés par leur grandeur au rivage de la Seine, les ministres Parrieu et Rouher se consolent de ne pouvoir aller passer les vacances dans leurs montagnes en dansant à huit clos dans une des salles du ministère de la Justice, une bourrée de leur pays natal.), number 185 from the series News (Actualités)
Date
1850
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
8 1/2 x 10 3/8 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1985.122
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

To 1985, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); November 1985, gifted to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Delteil, Loys. "Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XX-XXIX." Paris, 1906-1926. no. 2027

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