1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Cérémonie imposante du scrutin is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a crowded room of men in suits. Some stand stiff. Others slouch, or laugh too loud. Lines are thick and scratchy. Faces bulge. Mouths stretch wide. A few hold glasses up like toasts. Daumier turned politics into theater. He used the press to mock leaders. This print ran in a magazine. It wasn’t just art—it was daily fire. Check out Daumier, Honoré 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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