1872
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Mon bon ami, faites-moi le plaisir de signer ... is a 1872 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Two men stand face to face in a small room. One holds a giant pen. The other looks nervous. Their thick outlines and bold shadows scream “cartoon.” Daumier loved printing pictures cheaply to mock daily life. He turned education laws into jokes that everyone could see. The bigger pen hints at the heavy weight of new rules. He made over 4,000 lithographs like this—fast, sharp, and funny. Look up lithography to see how the greasy crayon on stone turns into 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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