1857
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Il me semble que nous allons dèrailler ... is a 1857 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Honoré Daumier’s lithograph shows a jolted train car with three passengers. The woman grips her seat, eyes wide. The man beside her leans forward, talking fast. The third man barely reacts, reading his paper. Daumier made this in the 1850s when trains were new and scary. People worried about crashes a lot. He used bold lines to show the sudden lurch. Look up lithography next.
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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