1847
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Laissez dire un peu de mal de vous... is a 1847 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a crowded courtroom scene. A man in a suit sits slumped, holding a child’s hands. Behind him, a judge in a long robe stands with hands on a table. Other people in the room watch or whisper. The drawing is rough and full of quick lines. The title at the bottom hints this is about a messy trial—someone’s insulting the other side’s family. The artist made this in 1847, when courts were often chaotic and public. Next, check out lithography to see how this sketch was printed.
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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