1865
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Vue prise a la buvette d'un bain is a 1865 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Here’s a plainspoken glimpse of Daumier’s 1865 lithograph. You see three people in a modest room, one man leaning in to drink while a child watches. Daumier knew Parisian life inside out. He often mocked social habits in quick, sharp prints like this one. Daumier’s lithographs spread fast because they were cheap and bold. This one shows how he turned everyday scenes into quiet jokes. Now go look up lithography online.
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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