1844
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Hier dans la rue Saint-Honoré ... unviellard is a 1844 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows two seated men and one standing in a cramped room. The man on the left leans in, talking to the seated pair. Their clothes look worn but clean. Daumier often mocked Paris life in prints. This scene feels real but staged—like a play about daily struggles. The rough lines make the men’s tired faces stand out. See more like this in Daumier, Honoré.
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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