1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Les Parisiens ayant trouvé le moyen de circuler ... is a 1850 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows Parisians walking on stilts through a flooded street. Men wear top hats. Women hold umbrellas. Some balance on planks. Pigs and dogs wade nearby. Daumier made this to mock the city’s poor storm drainage. Paris had bad pipes then. People joked about walking on water as a fix. See how he used quick, scratchy lines? That’s 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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