1857
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
J'en aurais fait un boucher ... is a 1857 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This 1857 lithograph shows a young man in everyday clothes facing a butcher in a bloodstained apron. The butcher holds a cleaver over a counter piled with meat. Daumier packs politics into this quiet scene. Daumier used lithography to protest class divides. The sharp contrast between the two men mirrors his sharp views on labor and pay. His ink prints could spread fast, reaching more people than oil paintings. Look up lithography to see how Daumier’s rough style gave his prints punch.
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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