Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834, October 2, 1834, plate 24 from L’Association mensuelle
October 2, 1834
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
France
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.
Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper