1833
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Sire! Lisbonne est prise... (Sire! Lisbon has been captured...) is a 1833 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, depicting Napoleon, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a stiff, uniformed man waving a paper titled “Lisbon is Taken!” while a slouched guy in a rumpled coat smirks and sips from a bottle. Daumier made this in 1833 as a lithograph—a greasy ink on stone that prints fast and cheap—so ordinary people could laugh at the news. Look for more Daumier prints 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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