1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Pierre Leroux Osant apostrophe ... is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a satirical scene with two panels. The top panel has a speaker at a podium, and the bottom panel has the same person shaking hands with others. The speaker is being very aggressive in the top panel, but very friendly in the bottom panel. This contrast is interesting because it highlights the difference between how people present themselves in public and how they really are. To learn more about the method used to create this image, look up the technique: lithography.
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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