1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Une Gloire éteint l'autre is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a big, exaggerated man in a suit, tipping over like a toppling tower. He’s holding a cone hat in one hand and kicking wildly with his legs. Below him, a crowd of small, blurry faces watches from a stage or platform, some reaching up in shock. The artist used thick, dark lines to make the figure look unstable and silly. The date "1789" is scribbled in the corner, but that’s likely a mistake—this was made much later. Want to know more? Check out 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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