1864
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Est-il permis d'être maigre comme ca! ... is a 1864 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A man in a top hat floats in a pool. His body is skinny, his head huge. Two other men in the water point and laugh. Daumier made this in 1864, not with paint but with ink on stone. That trick is called lithography. The stone holds ink where crayon touches it. Then it prints like a stamp. This lets artists draw fast, like a cartoon. Look up lithography. Watch how the ink spreads on the stone before it prints.
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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