1865
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Les personnes de l'aimable société qui ... is a 1865 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A crowd gathers under a striped awning to watch a puppet show. Their faces twist with laughter or scorn. One man in a top hat clutches his chest, mid-chuckle. Daumier packs a lot of punch in one sheet. He mocks the upper class by showing how easily they’re amused. The puppets look as stiff as their owners. This is lithography: ink sticks to greasy lines on stone, then prints in one go. Try finding it in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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