1847
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Inconvénient de demander des réparations... is a 1847 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows three people in a crumbling apartment. One man is bent over, fixing a broken ceiling. Another man leans out a window, holding a bucket. A woman sits nearby, looking worried. The walls are peeling, and the floor is littered with debris. The title means "Inconvenient to ask the landlord for repairs." It’s a sharp comment on poor living conditions. Next, look up lithography to see how this sketch was made.
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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