1852
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Amateurs du grand monde is a 1852 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a group of people crowded around a piano. The artist used bold lines to show big noses and wild expressions on each face. Their clothes look stiff and formal, but they slouch like they’re tired. Daumier worked fast with greasy ink on stone. This trick, called lithography, lets the press copy his drawing exactly. It’s how cartoons in newspapers started. Think it looks like quick sketches for a show. Look up the artist—Honoré Daumier.
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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