Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) L'Amour et sa mère (Cupid and his Mother), 1853 Lithograph Gift of Eugene L. Garbaty, 1954.148
Daumier often depicted the contrast between the on-stage and off-stage realities of actors’ lives. Here a typical stage mom seems completely unaware of how unattractive, and probably untalented, her little angel is.