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The Laundress (La Blanchisseuse) (also known in English as The Washerwoman) is an oil-on-panel painted by French artist Honoré Daumier in 1863. It is exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The subject of laundresses, also known as washerwomen, was a popular one in art, especially in France.[1]

The Laundress (La Blanchisseuse)
Artist	Honoré Daumier
Year	c. 1863
Type	Oil on panel
Dimensions	49 cm × 33.5 cm (19 in × 13.2 in)
Location	Musée d'Orsay, Paris

History

Acquired by the Louvre in 1927 and since 1986 exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay,[2] this painting has another two versions, currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, and at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery of Buffalo, New York.

Daumier lived on the Quai d'Anjou on the Île Saint-Louis in central Paris, and had plenty of opportunities for observing the attitudes of the washerwomen returning from the lavoir on the Seine, as they wearily climbed the stone steps, bent beneath the weight of their bundles of washing. Nevertheless, there is a strength as well as fatigue expressed in the body of this mature woman, accompanied by her child, whom there is evidently nobody to mind at home. The summary handling of the paint avoids any suggestion of anecdote and gives a monumental quality to this little picture.

As said, Daumier painted several variations on this theme: numerous replicas of them exist, some apocryphal. The Louvre-acquired work appears, according to critics, to be far the best. One of them – under the title Blanchisseuse – was exhibited by the painter at the Salon of 1861.[3]

Notes

References

• Lejeune, Robert, Honoré Daumier, Lausanne (1953)
• Maison, K.-E., Honoré Daumier, Catalogue raisonné of the paintings, watercolors and drawings, London (1968)
• Mandel, Gabriele, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Daumier, Paris (1972) (in French)
• Compin, Isabelle – Roquebert Anne, Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du Musée du Louvre et du Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1986) (in French)
• Compin, Isabelle – Lacambre, Geneviève (eds)- Musée d'Orsay. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures, Paris (1990) (in French)

External links

• La Blanchisseuse at the Musée d'Orsay
• Honoré Daumier (French, 1808 – 1879) on MutualArt.com
• Works at the Musée d'Orsay: paintings and especially good selection of sculptures
• Daumier Website, complete website on Daumier's life and work; Bibliography, Exhibitions etc.
• Daumier's biography, style and critical reception
• Web Gallery of Art
• Daumier Drawings, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains information on this painting
• "Daumier, Honoré" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 849.

На других языках

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- [en] The Laundress (Daumier)

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[es] La lavandera

La lavandera es el cuadro más conocido del pintor realista Honoré Daumier. Data del año 1863 y se trata de un óleo sobre lienzo con unas dimensiones de 49 cm de alto por 33,5 cm de ancho. Se conserva en el Museo de Orsay de París.

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[fr] La Blanchisseuse (Daumier)

La Blanchisseuse (également connue comme La Lavandière) est une peinture à l'huile sur panneau peint par l'artiste français Honoré Daumier en 1863. Elle est actuellement conservée et exposée au Musée d'Orsay à Paris.

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