1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Les fricoteurs politiques is a 1850 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Two men argue over a rolled-up paper labeled "Constitution." One wears a jester’s hat. The other looks like a soldier in a tall hat. Daumier made this in 1850. He used lithography to print it fast and cheap. That let him mock politicians and generals without getting caught. See how the jester points at the paper? It’s like he’s teasing power itself. Look up lithography next.
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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