Les Parisiens: Les Badauds
Date1839
Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1808–1879)
Illustration CitationLe Charivari, December 5, 1839
MediumLithograph
Dimensionssheet: 11 3/16 × 7 1/2 in. (28.4 × 19.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-554
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe caption translates to read:BYSTANDERS.
You can hardly believe, actually it's impossible to believe that this poor fisherman perched on a boat is the only reason for this gathering. With a sure instinct, the Parisians, this intelligent and energetic cast, are nailed to the ground by a serious incident, a milliner, a peer of France, a chestnut vendor, a candidate for the Academy, a victim of love or ambition!.... Ah well no, it's really a gudgeon that you aren't seeing and that they aren't seeing either....
