1854
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
La fonte d'un colosse de neige is a 1854 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier’s 1854 lithograph shows a giant snow figure melting while people watch. Water drips from its huge head and hands. This isn’t just a funny image. It mocks power and time. The snow giant looks proud but turns to puddles fast. The trick is in the lines—bold black shapes against white paper. Look up lithography if you want to see how prints like this are made.
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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