1845
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Une Maitresse a l'Opéra is a 1845 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows two men in fancy 19th-century clothes. One is pointing at a tiny dancer onstage while holding a tiny fan. The other man leans in, listening. The background looks like an opera house with blurry sketches of people and scenery. The text below jokes about the dancer being "crazy about" the man pointing. This was a common way to add humor in old cartoons. Want to see how artists used lithography to make sharp, funny prints like this? Try looking up 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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