1857
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un effet de crinoline au bord de la mer is a 1857 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A man in a loud checkered suit stands stiffly on the beach. A woman in a huge hoop skirt twists toward him, her dress nearly touching the waves. The sea rolls behind them, dotted with tiny boats. Daumier often mocked fancy clothes and the people who wore them. This print shows how ridiculous big skirts looked in real life. He made fun without saying a word. Try looking up lithography next.
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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