1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Ant. Laurent Pagnerre is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a person with big hair and a big mustache. He's wearing a formal coat and holding two books. The person is surrounded by stacks of papers, which is pretty funny. He looks like a literary figure, but the artist is poking fun at him. The humor in this work is interesting. It comments on literary culture in 19th-century France. You can learn more about this kind of printmaking by looking into 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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