1855
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Deux Grands-Ducs Lachés ... sur Sébastopol is a 1855 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a man holding a birdcage while two owls fly away. He's a rotund figure, and the scene is humorous. The detail in the lines shows the owls moving, but the man is still. The man is exaggerated, which adds to the humor. The artist used satire to make a point, and it shows in this scene. Check out the work of artist: Daumier, Honoré, to see more like this.
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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