Traveler, Your Passport?, from Pastorales (Romance of Country Life)

1845

Not on view

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.

Artwork Details

Title: Traveler, Your Passport?, from Pastorales (Romance of Country Life)
Series/Portfolio: Pastorales (Romance of Country Life)
Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
Date: 1845
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper; first state of two, proof
Dimensions: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 13/16 in. (35.7 × 27.4 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Susan Schulman and Carolyn Bullard, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2020
Object Number: 2020.82.1
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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