1838
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
La fourmi is a 1838 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a man walking in a crowd, holding a bag to his chest. He's near a building with a sign that says 'CAISSE D'EPARGNE'. The man is in the middle of a busy scene, with people around him. This lithograph is interesting because it shows what city life was like back then. It gives us a glimpse of how people lived and interacted in 19th-century France. To learn more about this style of art, look into the technique: lithography.
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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