1870
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
C'est l'apollon du nouvel opéra is a 1870 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two men looking at a sculpture in a gallery. They have big reactions on their faces. The men's expressions show they are really thinking about the art, and that's what makes this interesting - it's like they're judging it. This tells us about how people felt about art back then. It shows that art was a big deal and people had strong opinions. Check out more works using 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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