1842
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Marius à Carthage is a 1842 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows an old man with torn clothes sitting by big stone blocks. His face is tired and serious. A younger man stands near him, holding a scroll. Daumier made this to show how society leaves people behind. The ruins behind them remind us that civilizations fade, but human struggles stay the same. See how he used shading to make the figures pop? That’s called lithography. Try looking up Daumier, Honoré next.
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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