Honoré-Victorin Daumier. Sight, plate 39 from Types Parisiens. 1839. France. Lithograph in black on white wove paper, with letterpress verso A favorite of Daumier’s, this print is a play on traditional genre scenes, comically at odds with the sense it portrays. “Sight” is represented by a nighttime stroll alongside the River Seine, with Notre Dame emerging hazily from the darkness. The clearest object is the moon, represented by a curve of unmarked paper, in stark contrast with the heavily shaded image. The moon’s prominence only deepens the print’s irony a crescent moon is traditionally a sym
Honoré-Victorin Daumier. Sight, plate 39 from Types Parisiens. 1839. France. Lithograph in black on white wove paper, with letterpress verso A favorite of Daumier’s, this print is a play on traditional genre scenes, comically at odds with the sense it portrays. “Sight” is represented by a nighttime stroll alongside the River Seine, with Notre Dame emerging hazily from the darkness. The clearest object is the moon, represented by a curve of unmarked paper, in stark contrast with the heavily shaded image. The moon’s prominence only deepens the print’s irony a crescent moon is traditionally a symbol that a husband has been cuckolded by his wife, suggesting that the man in the print cannot see what is right before his eyes.
Size: 3000px × 2070px
Photo credit: © WBC ART / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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