1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Louis-Joseph Buffet is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Here’s a simple take on this sharp little print. You see a man in a suit with a big nose and wild eyes. His clothes look stiff and formal, but his face is all exaggerated frowns and folds. Daumier used lithography here, a fast print method that let him mock power players in his day. The background’s vague, but you get hints of a big room. That suggests a politician or lawmaker. Daumier packed this tiny image with quiet anger—no fancy colors, just ink and sharp lines. Look up lithography if you want to see how he made it.
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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