1865
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
La promenade du Critique influent is a 1865 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a crowded room with people in fancy clothes. One man in the center wears a top hat and holds a paper, looking serious. Others around him seem busy or distracted. The walls have framed art, and the lighting is dim. The title hints this is about a powerful critic walking through an art show. Daumier often drew sharp, funny pictures of everyday life. Look up lithography to see how this sketch 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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