1855
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
D'ou arrives-tu? is a 1855 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A man slumps on the left, his coat torn and tool in hand. Across from him stands a stiff man in a dark suit. Their gap says more than words. Daumier printed this on stone with greasy ink, a trick called lithography. It let him draw fast, like a cartoonist, but sharp as a blade. See more like this at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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