1836
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Bertrand, j'adore l'industrie... is a 1836 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows two men facing off. One holds a hammer like a weapon. The other wears a ridiculous top hat and coat. Their angry faces look silly. Daumier loved to mock people in power. The print makes fun of France’s growing industry. It pokes at how bosses treated workers. The cartoon style feels like today’s political memes. This kind of sharp humor shows up in Daumier’s work. See more 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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