1857
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Une expèrience culinaire is a 1857 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows four people sitting at a dining table. The adults look stiff and unhappy while the child stares at the food. The room is dim, only lit by a single lamp. Daumier made over 4,000 lithographs in his life. This one pokes fun at fancy meals that feel like work instead of fun. See how the woman’s fork hovers—she’s not eager to eat. It looks like he drew this while sitting in a Paris café. Go find more of his prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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