1840
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
La Queue au Spectacle is a 1840 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A crowd of people leans out a second-story window, packed together like sardines. Their faces are pressed close to the glass, watching something below. One man in a hat stands on the street, looking up at them. The scene is dark, with quick, sketchy lines that make everything feel busy and alive. The title *La Queue au Spectacle* means "The Line for the Show"—this is a crowd waiting to get into a performance. The artist used a rough, fast style to show the energy of the moment. Next, check out how this was made using 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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