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“- Now what? Are we going to continue hunting during the rain? - Not at all! The animals are just as afraid of the rain as we are. They might not be able to find this shelter, and we would end up losing too many of them!,” plate 5 from Croquis De Chasse
1859
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 20.6 × 25.8 cm (8 1/8 × 10 3/16 in.); Sheet: 25.1 × 32.8 cm (9 15/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1949.981
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “- Now what? Are we going to continue hunting during the rain? - Not at all! The animals are just as afraid of the rain as we are. They might not be able to find this shelter, and we would end up losing too many of them!,” plate 5 from Croquis De Chasse. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“- Now what? Are we going to continue hunting during the rain? - Not at all! The animals are just as afraid of the rain as we are. They might not be able to find this shelter, and we would end up losing too many of them!,” plate 5 from Croquis De Chasse — Honoré Daumier. 1859.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 20.6 × 25.8 cm (8 1/8 × 10 3/16 in.); Sheet: 25.1 × 32.8 cm (9 15/16 × 12 15/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.