1854
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
A Bucharest is a 1854 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier’s 1854 lithograph shows a chubby fellow on a “Bureau” box pointing at a newcomer. The room looks messy, like an office or shop. The seated man’s big hands and tiny feet look silly on purpose. This is a political joke in picture form. Daumier often mocked France’s leaders in prints sold cheap on the street. He used exaggerated faces to show who was in charge and who wasn’t. Try looking up Daumier, Honoré next.
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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