1839
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
La Vue is a 1839 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see three people looking up at the sky, with big faces and funny expressions. They're standing in front of a city building with a crescent moon above. The people are dressed in old-fashioned clothes, like a man in a top hat. The artist made their faces look silly on purpose, which is interesting because it shows he was trying to be funny or make a point. This style of humor is notable in the work. To learn more about this style, look up the technique: 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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