1845
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Danger de secouer trop fortement ... Un prunier is a 1845 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A man dangles from a bent plum tree branch, his top hat flying off. Below, another man stands in a pile of scattered hats as fruit drops around him. The scene feels chaotic and funny. This print was made using stone and ink, not paint. Honoré Daumier often used drawings like this to comment on everyday life in 19th-century France. He worked as a caricaturist and created over 4,000 lithographs in his career, many showing people in awkward or silly situations. The image pokes fun at how people act in public, turning a simple tree shake into total disorder. You can see more of this artist’s work at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. (Word count: 104)
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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