1856
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
C'est peut-être bon ... is a 1856 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier shows a thin man watching two bony horses drag a cart with no load. The scene feels heavy but spare. The horses’ ribs press through their skin. The man’s hands look rough, the cart just wood and wire. Daumier worked fast with greasy crayon on stone—lithography made prints cheap and sharp. This one probably spread fast in newspapers. Look up lithography if you want to see how the ink stays wet on the stone.
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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