1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Achille Fould is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This drawing shows a big-headed man in a long coat, standing with his hands behind his back. Behind him, a tiny statue of a person is raised on a pedestal, and a crowd of small, blurry figures walks away. The lines are sketchy, and the whole scene looks like it was drawn quickly. The giant head and small body make the man look powerful and odd at the same time. The artist used a technique that lets them print many copies easily. Next, look up lithography to see how this drawing was made.
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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