1846
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Quand le journal est trop intéressant is a 1846 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows three people in a dim room. Two women stand over a man slumped in a chair, leaning in to read a newspaper. The man’s head is tilted back, his eyes closed. A table beside him holds more papers and a lamp. The lines are loose and quick, like a hurried sketch. The title at the bottom means *"When the newspaper is too interesting."* It’s a joke about getting lost in reading. The artist used rough, sketchy lines to show the scene fast. Next, check out lithography to see how this kind of drawing was made.
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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