1847
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Une Famille chez qui réside l'instinct guerrier is a 1847 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows two men in a dim room. One is a tall soldier in a big white coat, holding a rifle over his shoulder. The other is a small boy in old-fashioned clothes, looking up at him with a hat in his hand. The soldier’s face is blurred, and the boy’s expression is serious. The soldier’s outfit looks heavy and formal, while the boy’s clothes are simple. The room has a rough, sketchy feel, like it was drawn quickly. Look up lithography to see how this kind of drawing was made.
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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