About this artwork
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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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Honoré-Victorin Daumier
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Title
- Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834, October 2, 1834, plate 24 from L’Association mensuelle
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1834
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Medium
- Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
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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.)
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Credit Line
- The Charles Deering Collection
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Reference Number
- 1953.530
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/79895/manifest.json