1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Le jour ou il y a une nouvelle is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a crowded room where people with huge heads point and shout at a piece of news. Their faces twist with surprise or anger, like actors on a stage. Daumier’s sharp lines make each figure stand out. He made this in 1849, when France was tense after a revolution. The oversized heads mock how politics turns people into loud caricatures. The crowd feels chaotic but still funny. If you like this bold style, look up Daumier, Honoré.
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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