1865
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
N'bougez pas! ... is a 1865 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows an artist sitting at an easel while a woman in a long dress watches him work. The spare background lets their quiet moment fill the page. Daumier, a French artist who often mocked Paris’s elite, made this print for a humor magazine. The woman’s stillness and the artist’s focused strokes hint at the tension between observer and creator. If you like Daumier’s sharp eye, try his prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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