1865
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Les agréments d'une flanerie ... is a 1865 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see people walking fast, carriages rolling, and tall buildings leaning slightly. Everyone seems in a hurry on this busy Paris street. Faces are stretched, bodies tilted, like the city is pushing them forward. Daumier made hundreds of drawings and prints about city life. He often laughed at how people acted in public—pretending to be important or ignoring each other. This image was made with ink on stone, then printed on paper. It’s not a perfect scene; it’s meant to feel a little messy and rushed, just like real life. Look up lithography to see how artists like Daumier made sharp, fast images that felt alive. (Word count: 102)
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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