1846
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Allons bon!... voila que'elle me cueille une rose... is a 1846 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows two people in an outdoor setting. One man stands holding a tall hat in one hand and a glass in the other, looking surprised. The other person, kneeling, is picking a rose from a bush and seems to be reaching up toward the standing man. The background is simple, with a few trees and a cloudy sky. The standing man’s expression and the way he’s holding his hat suggest he’s reacting to something unexpected. The kneeling person’s gesture looks playful or teasing. Next, look up lithography to see how this sketch 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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