1856
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Mmrs. Cobden, Gladsone et Brigth ... is a 1856 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a woman in a simple dress holding an olive branch out to three men in suits. Their faces look serious. The men stand close together, ignoring the branch. Daumier made this in 1856 but used an older print style called lithography. Each mark on the stone makes a sharp black line. The crowd around them seems to push in, but they stay separate. Try drawing with a greasy crayon on limestone next—see how it feels.
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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