1845
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Devant M. le Maire is a 1845 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows three people in a dim room. The man on the left stands stiffly in old-fashioned clothes, hands behind his back. The woman in the middle sits with her back to us, holding a child who clutches a book. The man on the right, leaning in, reads from a paper while the child watches. The artist used quick, sketchy lines to show movement and mood. The scene feels tense, like a quiet argument or lesson. Next, look up lithography to see how this sketch was made.
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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