Honoré-Victorin Daumier, “It's important for a man to know how to swim. He is not doing so badly for a start. You could think it's a fish, at least while he is attached to the cord. But he'll learn it… he is still young!,” plate 5 from Les Baigneurs
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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“It's important for a man to know how to swim. He is not doing so badly for a start. You could think it's a fish, at least while he is attached to the cord. But he'll learn it… he is still young!,” plate 5 from Les Baigneurs

1839

Current Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Medium
Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on ivory wove paper, with letterpress verso
Dimensions
20.2 × 27.4 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-1108840

A work made of lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on ivory wove paper, with letterpress verso.

Provenance

The Art Institute of Chicago

Registry history

  • 1839 — Recorded in the collection of Art Institute of Chicago — prints

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