1858
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Une visite aux bains is a 1858 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Honoré Daumier’s *Une visite aux bains* shows a packed public bath. Men in dark suits and top hats stand on wooden planks over murky water. Their stiff poses and sharp lines feel almost comical, like a silent joke about stiff social rules. Daumier used a printing technique called lithography. It lets artists draw on stone with greasy crayons, then transfer the image to paper. This one feels messy and alive, like a quick sketch you’d find in a notebook. See Daumier’s bold lines in person at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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