1846
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
In convénient de se batir une maison de campagne ... is a 1846 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a man standing on a small patch of land surrounded by floodwaters. He's dressed nicely and holding an umbrella. The man's situation is ironic because he wants to build a country house on a floodplain. This lithograph highlights the problem with building on a floodplain. The artist shows the floodwaters rising around the man's land. This detail makes the scene more interesting. To learn more about this style of artwork, look up the technique: 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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