1840
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Fausse position!!! is a 1840 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, depicting Bathing, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a man sitting stiffly in a chair. His face is blank and his hands rest flat on his knees. Daumier used sharp lines to make the man look awkward and uncomfortable. The chair doesn’t fit him right, like he’s stuck in the wrong spot. Look for his other prints of fussy, trapped-looking figures at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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