1844
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un divertissement de pékin is a 1844 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier’s print shows three men bent over a domino table in a fancy room. The walls have dark patterns. Their big heads and small bodies look funny. Daumier used lithography—a way to draw on stone then print copies. This made his political jokes easier to spread. Their serious faces while playing make it funny too. Look up lithography if you want to see how this trick works.
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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