1865
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Villageois économes se contentant ... (recto); A la campagne, pas de grèves de cochers ... (verso) is a 1865 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a crowded theater balcony in this 1865 lithograph. The audience wears old-fashioned clothes. A puppet with big features sits on the right. Its face looks silly, but the stage behind it is fancy. Daumier made this for a funny magazine. He used sharp lines to show rich and poor together. The puppet reminds me of street shows he liked. Check out more lithographs by Daumier, Honoré.
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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