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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

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

October 2, 1834
Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
28.6 × 44.2 cm (11.3 × 17.4 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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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