1852
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Se posant en appréciateur is a 1852 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two people sitting together, looking fancy. They're watching something, maybe a show. One of them has opera glasses, which suggests they're at a performance. They seem interested in what's happening. This drawing is interesting because it shows how people acted in public back then. It's like a peek into the past. To learn more about the method used to create this image, look into the technique: lithography.
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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