1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
La femme du représentant is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, depicting Cummerbund, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a man fixing his collar while a woman in a headscarf stares into a wardrobe or mirror. The scene feels ordinary, but Daumier uses it to poke at class and gender roles in mid-1800s France. He made this during political unrest. The figures look tense, hinting at unspoken struggles behind closed doors. Daumier often mocked powerful men in his work. Check out more lithographs by Daumier, Honoré.
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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