1856
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Une 1er reprèsentation de la bourse is a 1856 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a crowd of people sitting in a theater, looking at the stage. They're all focused on what's happening in front of them. The artist drew this scene from behind the audience. This lithograph is interesting because it shows what people did for entertainment back then. You can learn more about this type of artwork by looking 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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