1852
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Cherchant a fasciner une riche ... is a 1852 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, depicting Sheet Music, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a man performing in front of an audience of women. He's dressed in a dark suit and has his hands raised. The scene is set in a fancy indoor space with stylized chandeliers. The man seems to be enchanting the women with his performance. This says something about social dynamics in 19th-century France. To learn more about the method used to create this image, look into 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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