Art Lovers
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) · c. 1863 · Gray and black wash, charcoal, and graphite, with watercolor, on cream laid paper
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About this picture
Art Lovers is a CC0 drawing by Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879), dated c. 1863. Gray and black wash, charcoal, and graphite, with watercolor, on cream laid paper. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Art Lovers” (c. 1863) is the kind of sheet Daumier made by the thousand: a blunt, observing drawing of ordinary people, the law, or the Paris street. Most are lithographs. A few are paintings.
About the artist
Honoré Daumier (1808–1879) was a French printmaker and painter. He made thousands of lithographs for the paper Le Charivari, satirizing lawyers, politicians, and the Paris street, and painted quieter pictures of travelers and people at work.
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