1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Molé apportant des étrennes au petit thiers is a 1850 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, depicting Beheaded Head, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier’s lithograph shows a stiff man in a coat handing a jack-in-the-box to a round-faced boy who jumps back in surprise. The figures twist in odd ways—the man’s coat looks too big, the boy’s feet barely touch the floor. Daumier often mocked Paris life in the 1850s. This print shows a gift-giving moment turned silly, not grand. The lines are rough and fast, like quick notes. Compare it to Daumier, Honoré.
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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