1844
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Satané piallard d'enfant va!... is a 1844 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a woman in a dim room, holding a small child close. She looks worried, her face tense. Behind her, a candle flickers on a table, casting shadows on the wall. The rough lines and dark tones make the scene feel urgent. This is a lithograph, a printmaking method that uses smooth stones and ink. Look up lithography next to see how artists like Daumier made prints this way.
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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