1841
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
L'Eau du puits de Grenelle is a 1841 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, depicting Drinking, held at National Gallery of Art.
A man in a top hat carries a bucket across a sunlit Paris street. This lithograph shows Daumier’s sharp eye for everyday scenes and his knack for quick, bold lines. He often mocked city life in newspapers. Look for the hat’s shadow stretching long under the midday sun. Daumier made this image around 1841, long before color printing took off. It’s a snapshot of a moment, not a grand scene. Check out 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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