1864
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un criminel! is a 1864 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows two men in a silly standoff. The man on the left walks with a cane. The other looks shocked and grabs his arm. Daumier used this kind of exaggerated face and body language to mock people who pretend to be tough. The print feels like a quick cartoon meant for a newspaper. This technique is called lithography. It was popular in the 1800s.
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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