1845
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Le Format de plus en plus monstre is a 1845 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows two people in a dim room. The man on the left, wearing glasses and a cap, holds a huge rolled-up paper like a scroll. His face looks surprised or frustrated. The woman on the right, bundled in a shawl, sits with her mouth open, staring at the paper too. The man’s cap and the woman’s shawl suggest cold weather. The sketch feels rushed, with quick, sketchy lines. This was made using a technique that lets artists draw directly onto stone. Next, check out lithography to see how this kind of drawing works.
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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