1851
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un cauchemar d'un ...Bourgeois de la Place St. Georges is a 1851 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Honoré Daumier’s print shows a man in bed, wide-eyed and scared. A ghostly figure looms over him, one hand on his chest. The man’s frilly nightshirt and the figure’s dark cloak make the scene even spookier. Daumier often mocked Paris’s rich and powerful. This lithograph fits that habit—it’s a funny yet creepy way to show how the bourgeoisie feared change. The artist used sharp lines to make the man’s fear pop off the page. Daumier, Honoré
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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