Abstract:
An artist tells a woman that she shouldn't move while he paints her as she is standing in such a way that makes her look lovely. Daumier is illustrating in a charming manner the gap between Parisian landscape painters and farmers in the countryside. Their pastime is in a total contradiction to the hard work of the farmers, unable to understand the reason for painting landscapes. Daumier spent the summer of 1865 in Barbizon where he stayed with his friends Rousseau and Millet. The Les Paysagistes is a series of only 3 prints that appeared in Le Charivari between December 9, 1864 and April 12, 1865 .
