1848
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Allongeons le pas ... voila ceux hommes ... is a 1848 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a street scene with three people walking quickly, dressed in old-fashioned clothes. They look worried and anxious. The scene shows a moment of tension in a city, and it's interesting because it reflects the social issues of the time, like how some people were alarming others about certain things. To learn more about this kind of art, look at the technique: lithography.
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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