1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un cauchemar de Mimi is a 1850 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This odd lithograph shows a nightmare-like room. A creepy syringe with legs squats on a bed. A spider-thing looms above. Thin, wavy lines blur the walls like a bad dream. Artist Honoré Daumier made it in the 1850s. He often poked fun at modern life in his prints. This one mixes silliness with uneasy feelings about medicine. It feels like a sketch from a fever. Look for the odd shapes—no normal objects here. 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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