1838
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Piétié Filiale is a 1838 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, depicting Cummerbund, held at National Gallery of Art.
A son in a dark coat kneels by his mother’s bed. Her head rests on a white pillow. The room is bare except a small table with a candle. This is a lithograph printed on cheap newsprint. Lithography lets artists draw right on flat stone with greasy crayons. Daumier’s lines feel urgent, like rough news sketches. A faint light falls on the faces. It makes them look real, not staged.
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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