L'Amour et sa mère
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.