1845
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Comment on passe ses soirées en chine is a 1845 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows four people sitting around a round table playing cards. Their clothes look stiff and formal. The room around them is plain and dark. Daumier made this to poke fun at stiff Paris social rules. He often drew people who seemed bored or trapped by their own customs. Look up lithography — it’s a way to print images from flat stone.
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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