1851
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
La Souscription Napoléonienne is a 1851 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows two men in a doorway. One holds a long stick, the other a hat with coins in it. A third face peeks out from behind a curtain, watching them. The room looks plain, with simple furniture and a stair railing. The artist exaggerated their expressions—one looks stern, the other eager. This was a common way to mock how people begged for money during Napoleon’s rule. Next, look up lithography to see how artists like Daumier made prints this way.
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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