1843
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Clémence de Minos is a 1843 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows two figures in a dim room. One man leans on a cane, looking down, while the other sits on a raised platform holding a scroll and pointing at him. The seated figure has a crown of feathers and a serious expression. The lighting is dark, with only the seated man clearly lit from above. The seated figure’s feather crown and scroll suggest this isn’t a real scene but a symbolic one. The artist used quick, sketchy lines to show mood over detail. Next, check out lithography to see how this drawing was made.
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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