1857
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Vot' Bourgeois est-y pour liberté de la boucherie? is a 1857 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
The painting shows a busy butcher shop with a strong butcher holding a cleaver. He's talking to a woman at the counter. The butcher and the woman are the main focus, but the shop around them is also detailed. The scene is full of energy and movement. The artist used exaggeration to make the people and things in the shop look more interesting. To learn more about this style, look into the technique: 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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