1839
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Eh bien Malin! comment le trouvez vous celui-la! is a 1839 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Here’s two men at a small table. Glasses and bottles crowd the space. One man leans in to whisper. His friend leans out, hand to ear, eyes wide. Daumier made this as a lithograph. That means he drew on stone, then inked it for print. It catches people’s real moods—no fake smiles here. See how the lines bunch around their faces? It’s like you’re eavesdropping. Next, look up lithography.
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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