1866
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
L’attente à la gare is a 1866 by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Honoré Daumier drew this scene of four people waiting in a train station around 1865–66. It’s part of his series on everyday life in the 1860s. He sketched many groups—musicians, collectors, street performers—to show different walks of life. Daumier didn’t just show faces. He grouped travelers by type: a worker, a traveler, and two others, all caught in quiet moments. The drawing feels alive because of how he caught their postures. Check out more of Daumier’s work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Honoré Daumier’s 1866 drawing depicts four individuals—a woman, a man, a child, and an elderly woman—sitting on a bench in a train station corridor, with the latter reaching into her basket as a dog waits nearby. The man appears asleep while the child leans toward the woman beside him, capturing a moment of stillness in a well-lit space. Part of a series exploring social types and everyday life in transit, the work reflects Daumier’s observational approach to French society. The composition contrasts with his other station scenes by focusing on waiting rather than travel, executed in a style…
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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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