1844
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Ah! Monsieur ...votre bouillon est ... is a 1844 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows two men bending over a big pot in a kitchen. The cook stirs it while they peer in with skeptical looks. The room’s cluttered details and sharp shadows add to the joke. Daumier made this in 1844, years before his famous political cartoons. The image pokes fun at people who doubt their food—simple but sharp. See how the shadows make the scene pop? Look up lithography to see how this printmaking works.
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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