1846
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dire ... que c'st comme ça qu'on améliore les chevaux ... is a 1846 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two well-dressed men in top hats watching a crowd. Their stiff poses and blank stares feel fake. Daumier draws them like actors wearing masks, not real people. He used lithography to mock high society. The rough black marks make the scene feel urgent, like a quick joke. It’s not pretty, but it’s sharp. Look up Daumier, Honoré next.
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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