1847
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Tiens v'la peut-etre une pratique is a 1847 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows three men in old-fashioned clothes. The guy on the left wears a long black robe and a tall black hat, holding something in his left hand. Behind him, two men in suits and top hats stand near a doorway, one adjusting his hat. The text at the top reads *"Tout ce qu’on voudra"* (French for "whatever you want"), and the bottom has a joke in French about blocking someone’s path. Daumier often used humor in his work. Next, check out lithography to see how artists like Daumier made prints like this.
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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