1856
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Les thèatres au mois d'aout is a 1856 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two women sitting in a theater, looking pretty relaxed. They're dressed up, but they don't seem too excited. The way they're sitting and looking away from the stage tells us something about how people felt at the theater back then. The women's body language is really interesting - it's like they're not even watching the show. This might say something about how people used to go to the theater just to be seen. You can learn more about this kind of art by looking into the technique: 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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