1847
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Fesant toutes partie de la plus belle moitié... is a 1847 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, depicting Bathing, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows two men in suits. One holds a bird, the other checks a paper. Their faces look tired, their clothes rumpled. Daumier mocked Parisian officials. He used sharp lines to show their bored, lazy attitudes. The bird may symbolize the useless work they do. See how the artist’s lines tell the whole story in fewer than 30 seconds. Look up lithography 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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