1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Footit and Chocolat (Footit et Chocolat) is a 1850 ink by French 19th Century, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows two performers in mid-motion, one balancing on another’s shoulders. The lines are loose and quick, like they were drawn fast. The background has faint shapes of people watching, but they’re barely there. The artist used a scratchy, rough style that feels alive and messy. This kind of drawing was made by pressing ink onto stone, then scraping it out—it’s called lithography. Look up technique: lithography to see how it works.
This sculptor liked to keep sharp tools in the studio and blunt ones in his pocket—his niece recalled finding him absentmindedly whittling a stick while talking philosophy.
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