1862
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
The Boulevard des Italiens is a 1862 by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows a crowd of people in fancy clothes. The men wear tall black hats and suits. One woman holds a fan and looks bored. The scene is dark, with quick lines and no color. The artist made faces look exaggerated—big noses, strong chins. This was a way to show real life, not just pretty pictures. Look up Realism next to see more art like this.
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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