1843
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Le Dernier du Télémaque is a 1843 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a chaotic crowd of men in top hats and long coats, jostling near a ladder. One man in the front is bending over a barrel, while others push and shove around him. In the background, a small boat floats on water with a figure inside. The scribbled notes around the edges hint at a story—maybe about a shipwreck or a struggle. The rough, sketchy lines give it a hurried, real-life feel. Want to know more? Look up 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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