1847
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Une Position difficile is a 1847 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows three people in a dim room. One person stands holding a brush, painting a nude figure on an easel. The model sits on a stool, posing awkwardly with one arm raised. A third person, dressed in a long coat, watches from a chair. Notice how the artist’s face is blurred—Daumier often hid identities this way. The scene looks like a joke about the struggles of posing and painting. Want to see more of Daumier’s sharp, funny sketches? Try Daumier, Honoré.
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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