Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu’il va dormir dans la forêt de St. Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards! (When there is thirty degrees of heat, happy is the bourgeois man who goes to sleep in the forest of St. Germain, in the company of his wife and many lizards!), no. 27 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)"

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Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu’il va dormir dans la forêt de St. Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards! (When there is thirty degrees of heat, happy is the bourgeois man who goes to sleep in the forest of St. Germain, in the company of his wife and many lizards!), no. 27 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)"
Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu’il va dormir dans la forêt de St. Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards! (When there is thirty degrees of heat, happy is the bourgeois man who goes to sleep in the forest of St. Germain, in the company of his wife and many lizards!), no. 27 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)"
Artist/Maker (French, 1808 – 1879)
Publisher (French, 1829 – c. 1899)
Datepublished April 22, 1847
MediumLithograph on paper
DimensionsComposition: 8 1/2 × 10 in. (21.6 × 25.4 cm) Sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 1/8 in. (33.7 × 25.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Carnegie Corporation
Object number1928.5
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Alternate Titles Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)
Provenance 1928: Hamilton College (James Library), by gift of Carnegie Corporation.
Signature Recto, lower left (within composition): "h.D."
Inscribed Recto, upper center (typeset): "LES BONS BOURGEOIS"
Recto, upper right (typeset): "No.27."
Recto, lower left (typeset): "926" and "Chuz Aubert & Cie. Pl. de la Bourse, 29"
Recto, lower center (typeset): "Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu'il va dormir dans la / forêt de St. Germain, en campagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards!"
Recto, lower right (typeset): "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie."
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