1857
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Pour s'habiteur a attendre le lion ... is a 1857 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a man in a top hat and monocle facing a lion on a wheeled platform. This scene is absurd, but it's also detailed. The man's expression is exaggerated, and the lion's fur is shaded to look real. The artist used lithography to create this image, a technique that involves drawing on stone to print pictures, which is similar to the work of artist: Daumier, Honoré.
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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