1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Séance de nuit is a 1850 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a dark room split in two. The top half has a few small figures in faint light. The bottom half has giant, silly-looking men in a big hall. Daumier made this to mock boring government meetings. He used sharp lines to show the men as ridiculous puppets. This kind of drawing is called lithography. Look up lithography to see how it’s done.
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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