1855
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un jour ou l'on paye cinq francs is a 1855 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see three people in old-fashioned clothes looking at big pumpkins. They're wearing tall top hats and seem interested in the pumpkins. The people in the picture are doing a normal, everyday activity, which makes it interesting because it shows what life was like back then. To learn more about the artist who created this scene, look up 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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