1871
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
La Tristesse de Rouher is a 1871 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a man with comically big features standing stiff, hands on hips. He looks tough but feels sad—Daumier mixed mockery with real feeling in one image. Daumier was a political cartoonist who used prints to poke at power. Here he exaggerates the man’s face to show how public figures can seem silly even when they take themselves seriously. Fun detail: the grainy background keeps your eye on him. See more 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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