1871
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Versailles!... Trois semaines d'arrêt! is a 1871 by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a train stuck on a track between two hills labeled "Versailles" and "Poste de Paris." Two figures are leaning out of the train’s windows—one slumped over, the other holding a lantern. The scene looks messy, with loose lines and rough shading. The train’s delay is mocked by the text: *"Versailles!... Trois semaines d’arrêt!"* (Three weeks stopped!). This hints at a real frustration with slow travel in France at the time. If this style of quick, bold sketches interests you, check out 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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