1840
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Comme on fait son lit on se couche is a 1840 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two men in this lithograph: one on horseback and the other walking beside him, hunched over. This scene is interesting because it uses simple, monochrome tones to tell a story. The artist included text from a collection of proverbs to add a layer of meaning. To learn more about the process used to create this artwork, look up 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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