1865
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
L'incomparable somnabule is a 1865 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a seated man in a top hat, ringed by jeering spectators. The crowd’s faces twist into cartoonish sneers. Daumier’s lines are quick and sharp, like punch lines drawn in stone. Daumier spent years drawing for political magazines. His prints hit hard and fast—no time for polish, all attitude. You can see more of his bold style 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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