Artwork
Ah! Fouchtrra! ... Ma femme ...
Ah! Fouchtrra! ... Ma femme ... is an ink print by the Romanticist artist Honoré Daumier. It dates from 1841 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. Ah!
About this work
Overview
Ah! Fouchtrra! ... Ma femme ... is a lithograph by Honoré Daumier featuring a conversation between two individuals of contrasting attire, set against a backdrop of wooden barrels.
Subject & Meaning
The print juxtaposes a disheveled man with a woman in a full-length dress, highlighting social disparity through their interaction, a hallmark of Daumier's socially conscious caricatures.
Technique & Style
Daumier employs simple, expressive lines and shapes to achieve a sense of movement and texture, characteristic of his lithographic technique and emphasis on dynamic visual storytelling.
Context
Created during a period when social commentary was increasingly expressed through art, this work reflects Daumier's engagement with the realities of everyday life and class differences in 19th-century France.
Artist & collection
Artist
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.
Cré nom: Elles sont plus heureuses ...
Qui aime Bertrand aime son chien
En voila un de jobard! ...
Je te le dis toujours, avec ton sucre...
Et ces deux laids débris se désolaient entre eux
Pochades de carnaval: Vois-tu, si ton maître est bien content de toi et si tu as le prix de sagesse cette année! je te laisserai deguiser en paillasse! ...l'année prochaine!!
Je t'ai épousé pour charmer mon existence...