Accession number
PML 141321.38
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1862]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Caption continues: Je voudrais cependant bien finir mon étude...
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "113" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower right; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 38 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Refers to the French troops stationed in Rome by Napoleon III of France in support of Pope Pius IX during the Second Italian War of Independence.
Caption continues: Je voudrais cependant bien finir mon étude...
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "113" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower right; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 38 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Refers to the French troops stationed in Rome by Napoleon III of France in support of Pope Pius IX during the Second Italian War of Independence.
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 230 x 230 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an artist seated at his easel in a field, painting a farmer posing with his ox at left, and glancing unhappily over his shoulder at two soldiers standing at attention at right.
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