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For twenty years now I have sought to cross a Rennet apple with a Rosey apple. . . . this year I am finally successful. It has cost me 3,787 Francs in all for this green apple. . . . but it's be worth it, since it earned me a very honorable mention mention from the Central Society of Apple Culture! (Monsieur voilà vingt ans que je poursuis l'union de la reinette et de la pomme d'apis. . . . je suis enfin arrivé cette année à produire ce fruit vert qui me revient à trois mille sept cent quatre vingt sept francs. . . . mais qui me vaudra une mention bien honorable à la Société Centrale de Pommiculture!), number 41 from the series Pastorals (Pastorales)

For twenty years now I have sought to cross a Rennet apple with a Rosey apple. . . . this year I am finally successful. It has cost me 3,787 Francs in all for this green apple. . . . but it's be worth it, since it earned me a very honorable mention mention from the Central Society of Apple Culture! (Monsieur voilà vingt ans que je poursuis l'union de la reinette et de la pomme d'apis. . . . je suis enfin arrivé cette année à produire ce fruit vert qui me revient à trois mille sept cent quatre vingt sept francs. . . . mais qui me vaudra une mention bien honorable à la Société Centrale de Pommiculture!), number 41 from the series Pastorals (Pastorales)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
For twenty years now I have sought to cross a Rennet apple with a Rosey apple. . . . this year I am finally successful. It has cost me 3,787 Francs in all for this green apple. . . . but it's be worth it, since it earned me a very honorable mention mention from the Central Society of Apple Culture! (Monsieur voilà vingt ans que je poursuis l'union de la reinette et de la pomme d'apis. . . . je suis enfin arrivé cette année à produire ce fruit vert qui me revient à trois mille sept cent quatre vingt sept francs. . . . mais qui me vaudra une mention bien honorable à la Société Centrale de Pommiculture!), number 41 from the series Pastorals (Pastorales)
Date
1846
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
10 1/16 x 8 5/8 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1985.16
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

To 1985, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); March 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. 1428

  • Nineteenth-Century Caricatures by Honoré Daumier: The Helen Wurdemann Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1/13/1996–2/11/1996

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