1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
La dêroute! is a 1850 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a chaotic scene with people in dynamic poses and papers littering the ground. The artwork shows disorder and distress, with an urn labeled 'URNE DU SCRUTIN DU 10 MARS' at its center. This suggests the scene is about a specific event, and the papers with French texts add to the sense of chaos. The scene is created using a technique called lithography, a method where the artist draws on a stone to print the image, similar to what artist Daumier, Honoré used, but to learn more about this method, look up the technique: 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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