1839
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Quelle heure est'il, s'il vous plait?... is a 1839 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two men in a city, one asking the other for the time. They have big, exaggerated faces and bodies. The artist made them look this way to comment on class and communication in 19th-century France, which is interesting because it shows how people interacted with each other back then. You can learn more about this style by looking at 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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