1844
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
L'ouverture de la chasse is a 1844 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two men talking, one with a paper and the other with a rifle, on a newspaper page. This scene shows how people interacted in 19th-century France. It highlights themes of authority and leisure. The details in this work are similar to those found in prints made using lithography, a technique you can learn more about 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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