1852
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Toutes le Parisiennes qui possèdent des chiens ... is a 1852 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a group of fancy Parisian women with tiny dogs outside a building labeled "CONSTITUTION." The women wear big hats and hold leashes tight. Their dogs look bored or nervous. Daumier made fun of rich people who flaunted their pets in public. He used lithography to catch the mood of 1850s Paris. Tiny details like the women’s stiff poses and the dogs’ tired faces add to the joke. Lithography is a print technique where ink sticks to greasy marks 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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