1857
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Aspect que commencent déja a avoir ... is a 1857 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows people and strange, almost human-shaped shadows leaning out of windows. The buildings are simple. The whole scene feels tense and busy. Daumier made this in 1857. Back then, Paris was changing fast. People crowded into tight apartments. Artists often drew these crowded spaces to show real life. It’s a lithograph. That means the artist drew on stone, then inked it. Try looking up lithography next.
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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