1843
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Impressions et compressions de voyage is a 1843 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A crowded train car heaves with passengers. Their faces twist in shock—some clutch seats, others flail arms—all caught mid-motion. Daumier turns daily panic into sharp comedy. He used lithography, a cheap print method, to mock fancy travel ads. His scratchy lines make bodies look rubbery, like real riders lost in the jolt. Check Daumier, Honoré next—his other cartoons are just as wild.
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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