1864
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Un nouveau théatre modèle is a 1864 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows three men in a theater. One stands half-up, hat in hand, talking to a seated man. Behind them, blurred figures fill the seats in rows. Daumier mocked Parisian theater crowds in the 1860s. He worked fast, using lithography to catch everyday scenes with sharp humor. This print feels alive, like a snapshot before the show starts. You’ll see his sharp eye in *The Third-Class Carriage* at the same museum.
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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