Singing Guitarist (recto)
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) · 1855–60 · pen and black ink over charcoal
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About this picture
Singing Guitarist (recto) is a CC0 drawing by Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879), dated 1855–60. Pen and black ink over charcoal. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Singing Guitarist (recto)” (1855–60) 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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