1857
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Le restaurant de l'exposition is a 1857 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two people in a restaurant, with a crowd behind them. The artist drew them with exaggerated features, like caricatures. This style was a way for the artist to comment on the people and society of his time, and it's interesting because it shows how he saw the differences between rich and poor. To learn more about this style, look into the technique: lithography.
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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