1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Alex. Ch. Henri de Tocqueville is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This drawing shows a man in a big, round face with curly hair and a serious look. He’s dressed in a dark suit, holding a book or folder in one hand and a small object in the other. The sketch is loose and sketchy, with thick lines and shading that make his face pop. The style looks like it was drawn quickly, almost like a caricature. The artist used a technique called *lithography* to make it. Next, look up technique: lithography to see how this print 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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