1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
L'arbre de la liberté is a 1850 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
The painting shows a man in fancy clothes tripping over a tree stump. He looks surprised and so do the people around him. This painting is interesting because it comments on the political turmoil in France at the time. The man's funny face and the startled onlookers show how crazy things were. Check out the work of artist: 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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