1852
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Artistes en train d'examiner ... is a 1852 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a group of people in a gallery, looking at artworks on the walls. They're all dressed up in 19th-century clothes, which tells us when this happened. The people in the picture are very focused on the art, which is interesting because it shows how much people cared about art back then. The way they're all standing together, looking at the art, makes you wonder what they're thinking. It's like they're having a quiet conversation about the paintings. To learn more about the artist who made this, look up the technique of 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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