Traveler, Your Passport?, from Pastorales (Romance of Country Life)
Honoré Daumier French
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The confrontation between a stern officer and a portly bourgeois man with his son in the woods attests to a moment of heightened control by the French government under the authoritarian rule of King Louis Philippe I. Citizens were required to carry a passport for travel within France, even for short distances, which Daumier satirizes in this scene of a leisurely country stroll abruptly interrupted. This proof impression bears creases from having been folded in four, most likely when it was sent between the printer and the caption writer.
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