Honoré Daumier

Wretched lettuce... I am spending entire days watering it and it is still thirsty, from "The joys of country life"

October 4, 1865

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

Dimensions

Image: 6 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (16.5 × 24.8 cm) Sheet: 8 11/16 × 11 3/8 in. (22.1 × 28.9 cm)

Collection no.

36.12.230

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Honoré Daumier. Wretched lettuce... I am spending entire days watering it and it is still thirsty, from "The joys of country life". Honoré Daumier; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.