A Good Husband, Who in Order to Entertain His Wife... 1847

Editor: This is Honoré Daumier's lithograph, titled *A Good Husband, Who in Order to Entertain His Wife...*. It looks like it was made to be published in a newspaper or magazine. What stands out to you about Daumier's method? Curator: The lithographic process itself is key. Think about the democratization of image-making—how Daumier’s social commentary reached a broad audience through mass production. Consider also how the very materials—the stone, the grease crayon—allowed for a directness and immediacy in capturing the nuances of everyday life and the emerging bourgeois class. Editor: That's interesting; so the medium is the message? Curator: Precisely! We see a critique of labor and leisure intertwined with the means of its dissemination. Editor: I hadn't considered the link between the message and the production method. Thanks for clarifying.