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Photographed February 2011
A pleasant stroll on the Champs-Élysées (Une promenade d'agrement aux Champs-Élysées)
Photographed February 2011
Public domain: Image courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum.

A pleasant stroll on the Champs-Élysées (Une promenade d'agrement aux Champs-Élysées)

Artist (French, 1808–1879)
Date1855
Mediumlithograph on white wove paper
Dimensionssheet: 24.1 x 35 cm
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1953.14
Label TextThe Rue des Champs Élysées in Paris was already a fashionable destination when Georges Hausmann redesigned and widened the boulevard in 1854. Depictions of high society sauntering along the Champs Élysées were a fixture of contemporary commercial and fine art. In this satire, Daumier presents a society couple scowling at construction workers disrupting their promenade. An ardent supporter of the Republic and personal freedom, Daumier was surprisingly misogynistic. In 1848 he openly attacked feminists seeking the right to vote, work, and divorce in two of his series—Les Divorceuses and Les Femme Socialistes.
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