1845
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
How strange.... I had planted potatoes, and here I am harvesting truffles! is a 1845 by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This cartoon shows a farmer in a floppy hat staring at a basket full of muddy truffles instead of the potatoes he expected. The joke comes from turning a common farm chore into a silly mix-up. Daumier made this for a Paris newspaper in 1845. The print belongs to a series called “Pastorals,” poking fun at country life. It feels like a quick visual joke rather than serious art. Look up Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) to see more of his sharp cartoons.
This print was published in Le Charivari (November 19, 1845) as plate 33 from the series Pastorals.
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Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870.
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