Title: At the Chalons Camp: –Papa, why do they make the soldiers go out in the rain? –My boy, it is in order for them to learn to be under fire! from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, August 19, 1869
Object type: Print
Date: August 19, 1869
Portfolio: 'News of the day' (Actualités)
Artist:  Honoré Daumier 
Artist bio: French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
Dimensions: Image: 9 7/16 × 8 1/4 in. (24 × 20.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 9/16 × 11 7/16 in. (29.3 × 29 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1922
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Boys, term: Fathers, term: Mothers, term: Rain