1841
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
L'Eau du puits de Grenelle is a 1841 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, depicting Drinking, held at National Gallery of Art.
A man in a top hat drinks from a well in Paris. The background is rough, almost scribbled. The scene feels quick, like a snapshot. This is a lithograph—ink on cheap newsprint. Most prints of the time were smooth, but this one looks handmade and messy. Daumier used the cheapest paper he could find to mock fancy art. It’s not glamorous, but it’s honest. See how he did it at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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