1846
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Voyons témoin il serait important de... is a 1846 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting depicts a courtroom scene, with a man standing before a judge's bench. The judge and two other men sit behind the bench, while another man sits at a desk in front of them, writing on a piece of paper. The man standing before the judge's bench appears to be speaking, with his hand raised to his mouth. The judge and the other men behind the bench look on, their faces serious. The overall atmosphere of the painting is one of solemnity and gravity. The painting is a lithograph, created by Honoré Daumier in 1846. It is an example of Romanticism, a movement that emphasized emotion and imagination in art. To learn more about this style, explore the movement: Romanticism.
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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