1841
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Bains de Femmes is a 1841 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, depicting Bathing, held at National Gallery of Art.
Honoré Daumier shows women in a public bath, lined up in simple tubs. The lines are rough but full of feeling. One woman scrubs another’s back with care. This is a lithograph on newsprint from 1841. Lithography lets artists draw on stone, then print many copies fast. Daumier used it to mock Parisian life in cheap papers. This style feels almost like a cartoon. Look up lithography to see how it works.
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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