1837
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
La carte a payer is a 1837 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A man in a dark coat sits at a table, staring at a bill with a worried look. The table has a half-empty wine bottle, a few coins, and a plate with scraps of food. His hand rests on the bill, and he looks like he’s running out of money. This drawing was made using a printing trick called *lithography*—where artists draw on stone and press it to paper. The colors were added by hand later. Next, check out lithography to see how this process works.
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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