1840
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un rendez vous, c'est peut-être de la... is a 1840 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a person hunched over, reading a letter in a dimly lit room. The person's posture and clothes suggest they're from a lower social class. This was a common theme in Daumier's work, commenting on social issues of his time. He often used simple, everyday scenes to make points about the people in them. This kind of quiet commentary is similar to what you'd see if you looked into the work of the artist Daumier, Honoré.
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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