Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879
Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834, October 2, 1834, plate 24 from L’Association mensuelle
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Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879October 2, 1834
Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834, October 2, 1834, plate 24 from L’Association mensuelle
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879 →lithographprint
Date
October 2, 1834
Medium
Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 28.6 × 44.2 cm (11 5/16 × 17 7/16 in.); Sheet: 36.3 × 55 cm (14 5/16 × 21 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Charles Deering Collection
Caricaturist Honoré Daumier, in an unusually somber mood, used images of partially exposed corpses to make a political statement: Daumier criticized the contemporary French government’s excessive response to a lower class riot in his Rue Transnonian.
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