View Taken in a Studio a Few Ways before the Opening of the Exhibition, plate 3 from L'exposition Universelle by Honoré Daumier

View Taken in a Studio a Few Ways before the Opening of the Exhibition, plate 3 from L'exposition Universelle 1855

drawing, lithograph, print, paper

drawing

aged paper

toned paper

lithograph

print

pencil sketch

paper

personal sketchbook

ink drawing experimentation

pen-ink sketch

france

sketchbook drawing

watercolour illustration

storyboard and sketchbook work

sketchbook art

"View Taken in a Studio a Few Days Before the Opening of the Exhibition," is a lithograph from Honoré Daumier's series *L'Exposition Universelle* (1855). The print satirizes the Salon, a prestigious art exhibition held in Paris, by depicting two artists in a studio reacting to their artworks being rejected. Daumier's use of caricature and social commentary in his work made him a leading figure in the Realist movement, making this piece a quintessential example of his signature style. The lithograph is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.