1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
J'veux a boire! Mais puisque j'vous dis ... is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A man in a top hat stands stiff. His hand clutches a cane like a weapon. A scruffy beggar beside him reaches out, pleading. The rich man’s face is frozen in shock. Daumier shows class on one Paris street corner. He used sharp lines to make their difference pop. The beggar’s rags look worn. The rich man’s coat looks ironed. Lithography lets him print this scene fast. It went straight into papers people read daily. Look up lithography next.
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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