Traveler, Your Passport?, from Pastorales (Romance of Country Life)
Honoré Daumier
1845 · Lithograph on wove paper; first state of two, proof · Drawings and Prints
The confrontation between a stern officer and a portly bourgeois man with his son in the woods attests to a moment of heightened control by the French government under the authoritarian rule of King Louis Philippe I. Citizens were required to carry a passport for travel within France, even for short distances, which Daumier satirizes in this scene of a leisurely country stroll abruptly interrupted. This proof impression bears creases from having been folded in four, most likely when it was sent between the printer and the caption writer.
- Artist
- Honoré Daumier
- Date
- 1845
- Medium
- Lithograph on wove paper; first state of two, proof
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Susan Schulman and Carolyn Bullard, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2020