Working in the garden can be fun... but there are days when it is just too damn hot! / One rejoices in pure, unspoiled happiness when harvesting one's own apples... at least as long as one doesn't break one's neck, from "The joys of country life"
Artwork Details
- Title: Working in the garden can be fun... but there are days when it is just too damn hot! / One rejoices in pure, unspoiled happiness when harvesting one's own apples... at least as long as one doesn't break one's neck, from "The joys of country life"
- Series/Portfolio: The joys of country life (Les plaisirs de la campagne)
- Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
- Printer: Destouches (Paris)
- Publisher: Aaron Martinet (French, 1762–1841)
- Date: September 14, 1865
- Medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
- Dimensions: Image: 9 13/16 × 8 1/2 in. (25 × 21.6 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/4 × 11 5/16 in. (37.5 × 28.8 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957
- Object Number: 57.650.566a,b
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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