The Reading
Honoré Daumier · charcoal and crayon on laid paper
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About this picture
The Reading is a public-domain drawing by Honoré Daumier. Charcoal and crayon on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“The Reading” (date not listed) is the kind of sheet Daumier made by the thousand: a blunt, observing drawing of ordinary people, the law, or the Paris street. Most are lithographs. A few are paintings.
About the artist
Honoré Daumier (1808–1879) was a French printmaker and painter. He made thousands of lithographs for the paper Le Charivari, satirizing lawyers, politicians, and the Paris street, and painted quieter pictures of travelers and people at work.
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