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A Peasant Putting Bread in an Oven

Date

19th century

Creator

Honoré Daumier

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

Under Daumier’s vigorous and immediate draftsmanship lies a respect for traditional academic values. Contour and line are paramount, and an understanding of anatomy is obvious in the accomplished foreshortening of this peasant woman’s torso and forearms. Through an economy of means, with no modeling or hatching at all, Daumier suggests both form and weight. Despite the figure’s rough appearance, Daumier invests her with a grace and dignity rivaling the history painters of his generation. from Snay, The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection (Notre Dame, 2011)

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Under Daumier’s vigorous and immediate draftsmanship lies a respect for traditional academic values. Contour and line are paramount, and an understanding of anatomy is obvious in the accomplished foreshortening of this peasant woman’s torso and forearms. Through an economy of means, with no modeling or hatching at all, Daumier suggests both form and weight. Despite the figure’s rough appearance, Daumier invests her with a grace and dignity rivaling the history painters of his generation. from Snay, The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection (Notre Dame, 2011)
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Honoré Daumier (French, 1808 - 1879)
19th century
Drawings
Black chalk lightly heightened with white chalk on faded blue paper laid down on card
2014.061.183
bakers
bread
peasants
Not on view, please request access
16 x 22 in. (40.64 x 55.88 cm)
Bequest of John D. Reilly, ND '63, '64

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