1865
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Une plaisanterie dont ne se lasse ... is a 1865 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows people watching swimmers in water. One guy playfully dunks another’s head under. The onlookers lean over a stone wall, eyes wide, mouths open. Daumier was famous for laughing at human silliness. He used sharp lines and big faces to make jokes pop off the page. See how he pushes the joke further than regular drawings? Look up lithography next—it’s how he made this print.
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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