1855
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
A Naples: Voyons, je lui fais grace ... is a 1855 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A man flails in a tight grip while two others shove him forward. A third stands ready with a raised stick. An official on a platform watches it all. Daumier made this in 1855, years before the scene happened. He used a printing trick called lithography to sell cheap, angry pictures. Lithography lets you draw on stone with greasy ink then print hundreds of copies. This one mocks French police who cracked heads at protests. If you want more like it, look up 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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