1839
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Je n'y redescends plus!... je crois... is a 1839 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, depicting Bathing, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a man in a top hat with a worried look. His hand clutches a newspaper while his other presses his chest like he’s out of breath. Daumier made this during a time when news spread fast but people didn’t always trust what they read. The image hints at the stress of keeping up with changing times. Lithography was new then—ink transfers to paper from a flat stone, letting artists print quickly. See it next at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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