Ma femme... ça mord... ça mord!
1846
Medium
lithograph
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1946.21.256
Art Historical Context
Honoré Daumier’s *Ma femme... ça mord ça mord!* (184), a lively lithograph from the National Gallery of Art’s Rosenwald, captures the artist’s signature satirical wit. Daumier, a leading figure in 19th-century caricature, skewers domestic life with this cheeky title—“My wife... she bites... she bites!”— depicting a exasperated husband fleeing his sharp-tongued spouse. Created during the July Monarchy, a period of political tension and social observation, Daumier’s work often blended humor with critique of bourgeois society, making art accessible through printed media. As a master lithographer...
About the Artist
Honoré Daumier · 1810–1879
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879) was a prolific French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor whose works offered incisive commentary on the social and political life of 19th-century France. Known as the 'Michelangelo of Caricature,' Daumier produced over 4,000 lithographs, 500 paintings, 1,000 drawings, and 100 sculptures during his lifetime. His biting political satire led to his imp...