1844
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
La leçon de musique is a 1844 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a music lesson with three caricatured figures. The scene is lively and humorous, with a figure in traditional Chinese clothing playing a horn. This mix of characters and music adds to the humor, and it's interesting that Daumier used this scene to comment on social issues of his time. Check out the technique of lithography to learn more about how this print was 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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