1839
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Allons lancez vous père goutot... is a 1839 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, depicting Bathing, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a round man in striped pants about to step into a wooden bathing hut. His big hat is crooked. One foot hovers over a puddle. Daumier loved to mock Paris fads. This 1839 lithograph laughs at beach culture before beaches were cool. Notice how the hut’s shadow cuts him off—like society cutting off silly trends. It’s a quick sketch in stone ink called lithography.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870.
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