1837
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
La loge grillée is a 1837 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a man in fancy clothes peering through a small telescope at a stage. He’s in a theater box, looking down at a ballet dancer. The box has a metal grille in front, like a cage. Daumier shows how people watch others in public. The man seems distracted, not really watching the show. It feels like a quiet joke about how we look at things. Check out another artist like Daumier, Honoré.
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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