1839
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Tiens vous v'la, què que vous avez donc la is a 1839 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows two women chatting on a busy street. One wears a dark dress, the other a light shawl. Their faces and gestures feel real, not posed. Daumier made this as a political cartoon. He mocked class snobs by showing everyday people talking like they own the sidewalk. The crowded background adds energy without distraction. Look up lithography to see how he drew on stone.
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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