Le Travail is an etching by Armand Désiré Gautier of his painting, Woman Ironing. Gautier was a painter-printmaker, and one of his most well-known works in America is his 1856 engraving after George Caleb Bingham’s painting Stump Speaking.

Gautier was born in Lille, moved to Paris and studied under Leon Cogniet. Gustave Courbet painted his portrait.

English art critic and printmaking champion Philip Gilbert Hamerton found Le Travail important enough to include it in his seminal 1868 book Etching and Etchers. Unfortunately, several sources have mistakenly attributed the etching to another, more well-known Gautier, Lucien Marcelin Gautier. Hamerton cites A. Gautier as the artist.

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