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“Pardon me, Mayor.... would you please be so kind to tell me whether swimming is allowed here?,” plate 25 from Les Baigneurs
1840
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.7 × 26.2 cm (7 13/16 × 10 3/8 in.); Sheet: 26.1 × 34.5 cm (10 5/16 × 13 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1948.405
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “Pardon me, Mayor.... would you please be so kind to tell me whether swimming is allowed here?,” plate 25 from Les Baigneurs. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“Pardon me, Mayor.... would you please be so kind to tell me whether swimming is allowed here?,” plate 25 from Les Baigneurs — Honoré Daumier. 1840.
Medium: Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 19.7 × 26.2 cm (7 13/16 × 10 3/8 in.); Sheet: 26.1 × 34.5 cm (10 5/16 × 13 5/8 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.