1865
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Voyons ... admirez au moins ce Courbet! ... is a 1865 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two men with strong facial expressions in this lithograph. They're looking at something that surprises or excites them. The background looks like an art gallery. The men's reactions are interesting because they show how people reacted to art back then. This was a time when art was changing and people had different opinions about it. Check out the technique: lithography, used by artists like Honoré Daumier.
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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