1842
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Le réfugié politique is a 1842 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A man leans on a cane in a dark room. His coat is old and rumpled. His face drops like he’s just walked a long way. Daumier drew this in 1842. The picture is a lithograph—ink on stone, pressed onto paper. That way, prints could spread fast and cheap. Look at his slumped shoulders. That’s what exile feels like. See more like this by 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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