1852
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Aux Champs-Elysées is a 1852 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a crowded Paris street scene. The artist drew it on stone with greasy ink in 1852. Musicians play instruments while fancy-dressed women chat nearby. Daumier packed tiny details into this quick print. The women’s hats tilt just so. The musicians’ faces look tired and real. His sharp lines make fun of rich Parisians mid-1800s. Look up Daumier, Honoré next.
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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