1846
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Mossieu Rabourdeau ... je ne parlerai plus politique avec vous .. is a 1846 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see two men sitting on a bench in this lithograph. They're having a conversation, and one guy looks worried. The interesting thing about this work is that it shows how people talked about politics in 19th-century France, and the artist did this by drawing everyday scenes like this one, which can tell us a lot about what people thought was important back then. You can learn more about this kind of art by looking into 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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