1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un discours fatiguant pour le président is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a tired president in the top half, nodding off while someone speaks at a podium. Below, the crowd’s faces twist into silly shapes—big noses, puffed cheeks—typical of Daumier’s sharp humor. He made over 4,000 political lithographs like this one. They mocked France’s leaders in the 1800s, often landing him in legal trouble. See how the crowd’s expressions change when you zoom in. Look up 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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