1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
La note ou la vie is a 1850 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a debt collector presenting a bill to three figures in this lithograph. The scene is detailed with ships and buildings in the background. The unique clothes of the figures show their social status, and the artist used satire to comment on financial issues. You can learn more about the artist who created this scene by looking up 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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