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You find spring too cold this year, next year you will perhaps find it too hot

Honoré Daumier, Arnaud de Vresse, Destouches

You find spring too cold this year, next year you will perhaps find it too hot

1866

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Honoré Daumier, Arnaud de Vresse, Destouches

You find spring too cold this year, next year you will perhaps find it too hot

1866

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph, Image: 252 x 213 mm. (9 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.17338
Published in the journal "Le Charivari" on March 30, 1867.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
N.-A. Hazard and Loys Delteil, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre lithographié de Honoré Daumier (Orrouy, Oise: Chez N. A. Hazard, 1904), p. 653, #3150.

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1925-1926), vol. 28, n. p., #3564.

The Daumier Register, http://www.daumier-register.org/, #3564.

Inscribed: Signed in stone: lower left "h.D." Inscribed in stone: lower left "A. de Vresse, r. Rivoli, 55."; lower center "-Vous trouvez le printemps trop froid cette année, vous le trouverez peut être trop chaud / l'année prochaine."; lower right, in image "15"; lower right "Lith. Destouches r. Paradis Pre. 28 8"

Markings: Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)

Artist

Honoré Daumier

French, 1808-1879
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Publisher

Arnaud de Vresse

French
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Printer

Destouches

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