One rejoices in a pure, unspoiled happiness when harvesting ones own apples... at least as long as one doesn't break one's neck, from "The joys of country life" — Honoré Daumier

Honoré Daumier

One rejoices in a pure, unspoiled happiness when harvesting ones own apples... at least as long as one doesn't break one's neck, from "The joys of country life"

September 14, 1865

Dating
Exact year
Held at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium
Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 6 11/16 × 9 11/16 in. (17 × 24.6 cm) Sheet: 8 3/8 × 11 7/16 in. (21.2 × 29.1 cm)
Collection no.
36.12.233
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Honoré Daumier. One rejoices in a pure, unspoiled happiness when harvesting ones own apples... at least as long as one doesn't break one's neck, 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.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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