1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
P.J. David D'Angers is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This print shows a man in a bold pose. His mustache is huge, his coat draped wide. Bold lines make him look proud and silly at once. Daumier made many such prints. They mocked politicians and rich men in newspapers. This one feels personal—he even put his own dry humor in the man’s smirk. Compare Daumier’s sharp lines to Rembrandt’s softer etchings.
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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