1854
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Les boyards réduits a cultiver ... is a 1854 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows a single man in fine clothes digging with a shovel. The other figures wear matching uniforms and march in the background. A fence separates the well-dressed man from the group. Daumier made this during France's Second Empire. He often mocked the powerful in his work. The contrast here is stark: fancy clothes meet hard labor. This technique uses a flat stone and ink. Look up lithography if you want to see how it works.
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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