1845
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dire pourtant que j'avais planté des pommes de terre ... is a 1845 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a weary man and a boy near a donkey and a pile of round potatoes. The man looks annoyed. The boy stares at the donkey. Daumier used sharp lines and shadows to show tired faces. He worked fast with a greasy crayon on stone. The scene feels real and a little funny. It’s a great example of how lithography prints bold black-and-white pictures.
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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