1848
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Qué qu'vous êtes ... devenu, m'sieu Lebrun? ... is a 1848 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two men talking in a market scene. They are dressed differently, showing their social classes. One man is in formal clothes, while the other looks like a street vendor. This picture is interesting because it shows how people from different backgrounds interacted in 19th-century France. The artist used simple lines and shading to create a sense of everyday life. To learn more about this style, look into 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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