1846
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Ne l'effraye pas Eudoxie... is a 1846 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two people sitting side by side, faces lit by soft light. One wears a tall hat, the other a loose headscarf. Their bodies relax but their expressions feel tense. This is a lithograph, a print made from greasy ink on stone. Lithography lets artists draw fast, like sketching, but prints last longer. It feels like a moment from daily life in the 1800s. For more on this print method, look up 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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