1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
P. Lamotte Rateau is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier shows a man leaning forward, holding a scroll labeled "Proposition Rateau." His face is stretched out—big nose, tiny eyes—like a cartoon. The man stands out against simpler figures around him. This was his way to mock politics. Daumier often used lithographs to poke fun at leaders. He’d sell them cheap in newspapers, so regular people could laugh too. Look up Daumier, Honoré 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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