1864
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Quien! ... Core des parisiens qui veniont s'baigner ... is a 1864 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a Paris riverbank packed with swimmers and gawkers. Daumier’s quick, rough lines make the crowd feel alive and a little silly. One man climbs out of the water, arms up, face full of pride. The joke isn’t just in the poses—it’s in how the whole scene feels both real and exaggerated. Daumier used lithography to catch that fleeting, noisy energy. Notice how the shadows under the trees feel solid? That’s the ink doing its job.
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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