1849
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Vue de M. Dupin se rendant a l'assemblée is a 1849 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a top half and bottom half split by a thick black line. In the top, a round man in a coat strides past two sleepy guards. Below, a crowd in the assembly hall watches a wild-haired speaker wave his arms. Daumier was famous for these sharp political jokes. Newspapers paid him to mock politicians in pictures. This one came out in 1849, right after France’s new government took power. Look up Daumier, Honoré next to see more of his biting cartoons.
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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