1835
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
L'Apoplexie allant remplacer a Londres la paralysie is a 1835 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, depicting Corpse, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a cartoonish, bloated figure in fancy clothes lurching toward a London street. His name is Apoplexy, replacing an earlier disease called Paralysis. The scene feels like a warning about health and greed in the 1800s. Daumier made this during France’s cholera epidemics. He used sharp satire to mock how rich people ignored public health. The drawing looks rough but gets the point across fast. Like his other political prints, this one packs a punch. Check out more Daumier, Honoré for laughs with sharp teeth.
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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