1841
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Ou ça bourgeois? C'est-il a l'heure ou ... is a 1841 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a woman in a dark cloak talking to a thin man in an open carriage. The woman leans in, her face half-hidden. The man sits stiff, one hand on the reins. Daumier used lithography to make prints cheap and fast. This let him mock Paris’s upper class in magazines. The thick lines and shadows add tension to the quiet scene. Look up Daumier to see more biting social jokes.
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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