1843
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Le danger de s'assoupir en voyage is a 1843 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
The lithograph shows a man leaning out of a train window, wide-eyed. A man on the platform points up at him. Their faces twist with surprise. Daumier catches humor in the modern world. Trains were new then. People weren’t sure what to expect. This style is called lithography. It uses greasy ink on stone to print bold lines. Look up Daumier, Honoré to see more like this.
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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