Honoré Daumier

Poor France... the trunk was struck by lightning, but the roots hold fast, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, February 1, 1871

February 1, 1871

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Lithograph on newsprint; second state of three (Delteil)

Dimensions

Image: 9 3/16 × 7 11/16 in. (23.3 × 19.6 cm) Sheet: 12 5/16 × 8 11/16 in. (31.2 × 22 cm)

Collection no.

22.61.277

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Honoré Daumier. Poor France... the trunk was struck by lightning, but the roots hold fast, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, February 1, 1871. Honoré Daumier; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1922. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.