![Bah! Je ferai le grand tour! [Bah! I'll go on the grand tour!], plate 20 from Actualités, in Le Charivari, 14 February 1867](/internal/media/dispatcher/17191/preview)
![Bah! Je ferai le grand tour! [Bah! I'll go on the grand tour!], plate 20 from Actualités, in Le Charivari, 14 February 1867](/internal/media/dispatcher/17191/full)
Bah! Je ferai le grand tour! [Bah! I'll go on the grand tour!], plate 20 from Actualités, in Le Charivari, 14 February 1867
Primary
Honoré Daumier
(Marseille, France, 1808–Valmondois, France, 1879)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1867
MediumLithograph
DimensionsSheet: 11 1/16 × 8 3/4 in. (28.1 × 22.2 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Simkowitz in memory of Amy Cecelia Simkowitz-Rogers, 1998.158
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1998.158
On View
Not on viewA master of the graphic arts with a biting wit, Daumier here satirizes the World’s Fair of 1867. Installed on the Champs de Mars in Paris, the various displays and buildings covered thirty acres surrounding a military school. Thousands of visitors from the provinces and foreign countries arrived in the city, taxing the city’s hospitality and transportation infrastructures. In Daumier’s print, the mythological god of war, Mars, is a reference to growing hostilities between France and Germany, belying the veneer of international good will promoted at the Fair. The image appeared in Charivari, a tabloid known for its stinging political content.
Exhibitions
![Un Envoi imprévu pour l'Exposition de 1867 [Un unexpected shipment for the exhibition of 1867], plate 36 from Actualités, in Le Charivari, 12 March 1867](/internal/media/dispatcher/17213/thumbnail)
![-Ah!…les comètes…, ça annonce toujours quelques grands malheurs!...[Ah yes...those comets..., they always predict great misfortunes!], plate 573 from Actualités, in Le Charivari, 30 October 1858](/internal/media/dispatcher/6724/thumbnail)
![Un peu agée pour jouer au colosse de Rhodes [A Bit Old to Play the Colossus of Rhodes], plate 262 from Actualités, in Le Charivari, 10 December 1867](/internal/media/dispatcher/4454/thumbnail)
![Capucinade - La pauvreté contente [The Principle of Capuchin Friars - Povery Brings Happiness], plate 88 from Actualités, in Le Charivari, 14 March 1851](/internal/media/dispatcher/19870/thumbnail)
![Inconvénient d'acheter un journal qui publie les nouvelles douze heures avant les autres [The Disadvantage of Buying a Newspaper that is Publishing the News Twelve Hours before the Others], plate 139 from Actualités, in Le Charivari, 29 June 1848](/internal/media/dispatcher/19866/thumbnail)
![Le nouvel Oedipe devant le nouveau Sphinx [The New Oedipus before the New Sphinx], plate 145 from Actualités, in Le Charivari, 17 June 1851](/internal/media/dispatcher/14895/thumbnail)
![Vue prise dans la salle des pas perdus quelques instants avant la réouverture des portes de l'Assemblée Nationale [View into the lobby, before the reopening of the doors to the National Assembly], plate 245 from Actualités, in Le Charivari, 4 November 185](/internal/media/dispatcher/19852/thumbnail)