1848
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Il parait... que mon gaillard est un grand scélérat... is a 1848 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows two men in a dim, cramped room. One wears a long black coat, a judge’s hat, and looks smug while holding a rolled paper. The other man, bent over, is carrying something heavy under his arm. The walls are bare, and a door stands open in the background. The judge’s smirk hints at a joke—maybe about a guilty man he’s letting off. The caption below (in French) reads like a lawyer bragging about getting a criminal acquitted. Want to know more? Check out 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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