1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Ferdinand Flocon is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a man in a long coat and top hat, holding his hat in one hand. His face is serious, with a mustache and long hair. The background is plain, with faint outlines of other people blurred out. The artist exaggerated the man’s features for humor and drama. This was a common trick in political cartoons of the time. Look up lithography to see how artists like Daumier made prints like this one.
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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