1846
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un léger coup de vent is a 1846 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A figure clings to a tree, coat and hair whipped by wind. Daumier made this with a greasy crayon on stone, then inked the slab. The press squeezed the stone to print this single sheet. This cheap, fast method let him mock politics daily in newspapers. It’s a quick sketch turned protest, turned art. If this lithograph grabs you, try Daumier, Honoré next.
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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