1846
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Monsieur Adolphe Chamouillard vous vous montrerez donc ... is a 1846 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows five men around a dinner table. A man in the center serves food while the others stare with shocked or angry faces. The room looks plain, with simple chairs and a dark background. Daumier made this to poke fun at snobby dinner parties. He used sharp lines and big expressions to show how silly formal meals could be. The man serving food looks tired, like he’s stuck with boring guests. Daumier often mocked high society in his work. Try looking up lithography to see how artists used stone and ink to make prints like this one.
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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