1870
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
L'unité allemande is a 1870 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a man pulling a cart piled high with a giant box. The box is labeled with names like "Hannover" and "Bade," and it’s stacked with smaller boxes. Below the cart, a pile of bones and broken chains lies on the ground. The image is a political joke about Germany uniting. The names on the box are German states, and the bones might symbolize old conflicts being buried. Next, check out lithography to see how this sketch was made.
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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