1847
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Les Baigneuses prudentes is a 1847 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, depicting Bathing, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows three women in long dresses standing at the water’s edge. Their wide hats and stiff postures make them look cautious, not relaxed. Daumier made this image for a newspaper. It pokes fun at wealthy Parisians who wanted to look proper even at the beach. The rough lines add to the joke. See another Daumier, Honoré lithograph 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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