1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Lucien Murat et Antony Thouron ... is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two funny cartoons side by side. On the left, two men talk with wild gestures. On the right, a man at a podium places a top hat on another man’s head in a crowded room. Daumier loved mocking fancy events. His thick lines make the people look silly on purpose. This is lithography—a way to print from stone—Daumier made it sharp and quick.
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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