1870
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Que diable est-ce qu'ils font la-haut! is a 1870 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A big man stands waist-deep in water, arms raised like he’s just heard the sky crack open. His face is pure surprise, mouth open wide. Above him a tiny, cartoony man tumbles head-first, arms flailing like a starfish. Daumier made this in 1870 as a lithograph—think of it as a quick, funny poster inked on stone. The joke is the size difference between the two figures. One’s a regular guy caught off guard; the other looks like a toy dropped from the clouds. This print is 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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