1857
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Les planètes étant elles-mêmes dans ... is a 1857 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier’s lithograph shows three robed figures sitting on clouds. Each holds a telescope and gazes up at a starry sky. The shading makes the clouds soft and the stars sharp. It feels dreamy, like they’re studying the night sky for secrets. The details in their armor and robes look real but float in space. Look up lithography—the technique Daumier used here.
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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