The War Council (Conseil de guerre), Honoré Daumier, 1872
The War Council (Conseil de guerre), 1872, Lithograph on wove paper, Image: 10 in. × 8 3/4 in. ( × cm), Prints, Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois), Daumier scrutinized French politics with such grim, inextinguishable hope that his cartoons symbolize any crisis anywhere. His vision of a timeless nightmare, skeletons on the march toward the offices of the war council, shocked the censors into prohibiting the publication of this print
Size: 4325px × 4973px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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