1842
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Bon mot du temps is a 1842 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A bearded man in rags stands barefoot, holding a lantern and a sack. Ghostly robed figures drift around him. The setting looks like an old Greek or Roman place. Daumier made this in 1842 as a lithograph. Lithography was new then. It lets artists draw on stone with grease to print images fast. Look up lithography to see how it works.
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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