1851
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Les Curieux Punis is a 1851 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a wild-looking man with a beard and messy hair, half-covered in leaves or vines. He’s crawling on all fours through a rocky, wooded scene, with jagged mountains in the background. A small creature—maybe a monkey or a demon—peeks out from the bushes behind him. The man’s face looks angry or lost, and the whole scene feels chaotic. The artist used rough, sketchy lines to make it feel urgent, like something out of a story. Next, check out lithography to see how this print was made.
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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