1834
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Les honneurs du Panthéon is a 1834 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a group of men hanging upside down from a sign. The sign reads *"Aux Grands Hommes"* and *"La Patrie Reconnaissante"*—meaning something like "To Great Men" and "A Grateful Country." They’re dressed in old-fashioned suits, and some hold papers with numbers like 500 and 1000. One man is dangling by his feet, and another looks like he’s being dragged by a rope. The upside-down pose is a joke about how these "great men" are treated after death. The numbers on the papers might be mocking how much money was spent on them. If you like this kind of sharp political humor, check out 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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