Oh Blast! ... the grapes really aren't good this year!, plate 24 from Pastorales 1845

"Oh Blast! ... the grapes really aren't good this year!", plate 24 from *Pastorales*, is a lithograph by Honoré Daumier created in 1845. The work depicts a group of figures, including a man rushing away from a vineyard, as if in disappointment. Daumier, a French artist known for his satirical and social commentary, often used lithography to depict the lives and struggles of ordinary people. The print is part of a larger series of satirical images, known as *Pastorales*, that explored the lives of rural French society.