1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Soirée chez M. Dupin is a 1850 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows two crowded scenes. On top, a group of politicians sit in a room labeled “Physionomie de l'Assemblée.” Below, a line of exaggerated faces waits in the snow labeled “Queue pour la tribune publique.” Daumier worked in black ink on stone. He pressed paper to transfer the image, a trick called lithography. The prints mocked powerful people while making them laugh. This style comes up in Daumier’s other prints. Look next at Daumier, Honoré.
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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