1805
watercolor
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Les Invisibles en tête-à-tête (Tête-à-Tête with Poke Bonnets) is a 1805 watercolor by French 19th Century, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This drawing shows four people in a busy, exaggerated scene. On the left, a woman in a fancy white dress and a tall green hat holds a fan. A man next to her is carrying a giant hat on his back. On the right, another couple walks, with the man holding a basket over his head and the woman carrying a basket on her arm. The background has a few tiny figures and a street scene. The title at the bottom, *Les Invisibles en tête-à-tête*, hints this is a funny take on how people wore and carried their hats in Paris. The colors are soft and hand-painted, giving it a playful, slightly old-fashioned look. Check out technique: watercolor, glazing to see how artists built up colors like this.
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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