1856
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un entr'acte, par trente degrés de chaleur is a 1856 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two men standing in a city, both wearing top hats. They look different, one surprised and the other thinking. The man on the left looks shocked, while the other seems calm, showing how people can feel differently in the same situation. The way they're dressed shows what people wore back then. Their similar clothes suggest they're from the same social group. To learn more about this style, look into the technique: 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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