1846
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Grrrrand Déménagement du Constitutionnel is a 1846 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This chaotic scene shows a group of people wrestling with a giant wheelbarrow. The man in the barrow is dressed in fancy clothes, while others around him struggle to push or hold it, some even crawling. Signs in the background advertise apartments and a "Constitutional" club, and the street looks messy with cobblestones. The title at the bottom, *Grrrrand Déménagement du Constitutionnel*, hints this is a joke about moving something heavy—maybe politics. Daumier often used humor to comment on real issues. Want to see more of his sharp political cartoons? Check out 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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