1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Quand un orateur ennuyeux est a la tribune is a 1850 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows two scenes side by side. On the left, a man stands at a podium while others nap or whisper. On the right, people shout and gesture wildly in debate. Daumier made this to mock boring speeches and loud politics. He used sharp lines and big heads to show who’s really in charge in a room. Check out another of his works, *The Legislative Belly*, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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