1846
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Great Removal of the Constitutional Establishment is a 1846 by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print shows a crowd of people pulling a big building off its foundation. The building is labeled "Constitution." People use ropes, levers, and their own strength. Some look angry. Others seem tired. Daumier made this for a magazine called *Le Charivari*. It mocked France’s 1846 politics. He used simple lines but packed in emotion. Look up Honoré Daumier to see more of his sharp political prints.
This print was published in the journal Le Charivari on June 8, 1846.
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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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