1844
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Un soir de fête nationale is a 1844 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see three people huddled together in a storm. They're trying to stay dry under a cloth. The scene shows a rainy night, and it looks like the people are struggling. The people are drawn in a simple, exaggerated way. This style was common in 19th-century prints. It helps to show the feelings and situation of the people in the scene. To learn more about this kind of print, look into the technique: 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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