1847
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Mais puisque j'vous dis que c'est son ballon... is a 1847 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows two men on a raised platform, arguing over a round object. One man in old-fashioned clothes points dramatically, while the other, wearing a top hat, holds the object like a balloon. Below them, a crowd reaches up, watching closely. The artist used quick, sketchy lines to show the tension between the men. The scene looks like a street performance or protest, with the crowd’s faces blurred but eager. Look up lithography to see how artists like Daumier made prints with stone and ink.
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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