1865
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
A Clichy is a 1865 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Two men face each other in profile. One sits, one stands. Their heads tilt close. The room between them is thin, marked by vertical bars. Daumier used a printing trick called lithography. It lets artists draw on stone with grease so ink sticks only where they draw. The print feels rough and personal. If you like this bold linework, look up Daumier, Honoré.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870.
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