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How strange.... I had planted potatoes, and here I am harvesting truffles!
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This print was published in Le Charivari (November 19, 1845) as plate 33 from the series Pastorals.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePastorals: How strange.... I had planted potatoes, and here I am harvesting truffles!, 1845. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879), Aubert. Lithograph; sheet: 34.6 x 23.9 cm (13 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.); image: 25.3 x 22 cm (9 15/16 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Brenda and Evan H. Turner, 1998.210
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