1856
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Courses nautiques de 1856 is a 1856 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
The painting shows a lively horse race scene with spectators holding umbrellas in the rain. The scene is full of energy. People are watching the horses, despite the bad weather. This tells us something about the people in the scene. The artist used this scene to comment on social events, and you can learn more about this style by looking 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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