1857
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Ca doit être bien amusant la-dedans ... is a 1857 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
The lithograph shows two men outside a grand Paris stock exchange. One, round and wearing a top hat, stares ahead. The other points and laughs, his face twisted in a grin. The building behind them is tall, with columns and big windows. Daumier loved teasing Parisian life. He drew this in the 1850s, when the stock market was new and mysterious. His sharp lines make the men look silly, but also curious—like kids peering through a fence. You’ll see his style in Daumier, Honoré’s other prints.
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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