1865
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un jour de verglas is a 1865 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier shows two men on a slippery Paris street. One slides on ice while the other bends down with a broom. The scene looks funny but also shows how hard city life could be. Daumier often drew like this, making fun of people in power. He used lithography, a printing method that let him make many copies fast. That’s why his work spread widely in newspapers. Want to see more like this? 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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