1852
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Le triomphe du paganisme is a 1852 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier’s 1852 lithograph shows a crowd of old gods and myth figures reaching for a lone, shadowed woman labeled “L’univer Religeux.” Their gestures feel urgent, almost desperate. This isn’t just a clash of old beliefs. Daumier made it during France’s push to separate church and state, so the print quietly argues for change. See how the darkest ink frames the woman’s face? That trick is called lithography.
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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