1848
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
La cinquième acte a la gaité is a 1848 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a group of people in a theater box, looking bored. They're all dressed up, but they seem uninterested in the show. The woman in the striped dress is the center of attention, with a child and a man leaning forward, all with different expressions of boredom. Check out the work of artist: Daumier, Honoré, to see more of his social commentary.
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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