1843
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Et ... Voila ...Les voyageurs qui nous passent devant le nez! is a 1843 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see three people standing side by side in this lithograph. They are formally dressed, but their features are exaggerated. The people are set against a backdrop of a passing steam train. The way the people are portrayed is interesting. They seem to be from a higher social class, but their features are caricatured. This might be a comment on the social norms of the time. To learn more about this style of art, look into the technique: 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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