1848
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Depuis que Zémire sait qu'elle va me couter quinze francs ... is a 1848 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows two women sitting outside. One looks annoyed. The other seems calm but tired. Daumier made this during France’s 1848 revolutions when money worries were everywhere. The title jokes about cost—a man grumbling that a woman’s love now costs fifteen francs. See how he uses simple lines to show real moods. It feels like a snapshot. 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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