1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un homme dans ses petits souliers is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier’s *Un homme dans ses petits souliers* shows two men in suits facing off in a rough street scene. One stands tall, stiff and proud. The other slumps, hands in pockets, looking tired and small. Daumier made this as a lithograph—ink on stone—so prints could reach many people. This one-liner pun (“small shoes”) mocks the proud man’s puffed-up pride. Look up lithography to see how artists turned drawings into cheap, fast prints.
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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