Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834, October 2, 1834, plate 24 from L’Association mensuelle

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Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834, October 2, 1834, plate 24 from L’Association mensuelle

Honoré Victorin Daumier

Date
October 2, 1834
Medium
Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
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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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