1864
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Le départ de l'hiver is a 1864 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two grumpy soldiers facing a bulky figure wrapped in ice. The soldier on the left clutches a rifle while the one on the right shakes his fist. Winter looks back, draped in a coat of icicles and snow. Daumier’s sharp humor shines here. He turns a season into a person to mock the army’s struggle with cold weather. The bare trees and flying birds add to the chill. See how the artist twists reality? Look up Daumier, Honoré next.
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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