1841
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
The Pedestrian is a 1841 by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print shows a woman walking, her long skirt dragging behind her. Her face is turned away. The artist used simple lines. The background is just a few blurry shapes. Daumier made this as part of a series about everyday Paris life. It was called *Bohemians of Paris*. Some prints in the series have different titles. Check out more prints from this series at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print was published as plate 15 from the series Bohemians of Paris . Some examples of the print, like this one, have the title The pedestrian (La Marcheuse), while others used the title The Nurse (La Garde-malade).
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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