1852
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Vous m'excuserez: je vais me mettre a table ... is a 1852 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Two men talk in a room. One leans on a railing, hand waving like he’s explaining something big. The other in a stiff suit stands hunched, eyes tilted up like he’s trying to read the ceiling. Daumier was famous for mocking politicians and silly fashions in prints like this. He’d sketch quick lines on stone, press paper down, and boom—an image popped out. Look up the next step: 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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