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- Allow me, Madame Prudhomme, let me salute from afar, though I do not know them, these travelers leaving Europe to plow the liquid plains, to pitch their tents on the American prairies . . . -Since they are German, they will not understand you . . . and also, I fear you will fall in the water, there may be sharks! (Laissez-moi, Madame Prudhomme . . . ), number 3 from the series Aquatic Sketches (Croquis Aquatiques)

- Allow me, Madame Prudhomme, let me salute from afar, though I do not know them, these travelers leaving Europe to plow the liquid plains, to pitch their tents on the American prairies . . . -Since they are German, they will not understand you . . . and also, I fear you will fall in the water, there may be sharks! (Laissez-moi, Madame Prudhomme . . . ), number 3 from the series Aquatic Sketches (Croquis Aquatiques)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
- Allow me, Madame Prudhomme, let me salute from afar, though I do not know them, these travelers leaving Europe to plow the liquid plains, to pitch their tents on the American prairies . . . -Since they are German, they will not understand you . . . and also, I fear you will fall in the water, there may be sharks! (Laissez-moi, Madame Prudhomme . . . ), number 3 from the series Aquatic Sketches (Croquis Aquatiques)
Date
1854
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
8 11/16 x 10 9/16 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1985.143
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. 2594

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