# Three Gossips

**Honoré Daumier** (French, 1808–1879)  
1865/1867  
Black crayon and charcoal, on ivory laid paper  
23.3 × 29 cm (9 3/16 × 11 7/16 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.141.25. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/110985).

## About this work

Honoré Daumier painted this in 1865/1867, aged about 47. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of black crayon and charcoal, on ivory laid paper.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Charcoal.** Burnt willow or vine. It smudges and wipes away easily, which made it the natural tool for working out a composition.
- **Laid paper.** Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.

### [Honoré Daumier](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/honore-daumier)

French, 1808–1879; born in Marseilles; died in Valmondois

Daumier grew up in Paris after his family left Marseilles, and learned lithography as a young man. For some forty years he drew for satirical papers such as La Caricature and Le Charivari, producing around four thousand lithographs that mocked politicians, lawyers and the habits of the Parisian middle class; a caricature of King Louis-Philippe earned him six months in prison in 1832. His paintings and drawings, such as The Third-Class Carriage, treat ordinary people with deep sympathy.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Culture: France
- The artist was about 47
- Real size: about 9 × 11 in (23 × 29 cm). The 8 × 10 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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