1864
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Elle est encore très bien, cette dame ... is a 1864 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier shows two old men on a bench. One talks with his hands. The other leans in, grinning. A woman sits apart, facing away. Their faces are exaggerated—big noses, deep wrinkles. It feels like gossip. Daumier made this with stone and ink. He pressed the stone to print the image. That’s called lithography. It lets artists draw like pencils but prints like posters. Check out Daumier, Honoré next time you see his name.
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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