The Witnesses - The War Council

Honoré Daumier

1872 · Lithograph on tan wove paper · Drawings and Prints

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. Thus, while Daumier's caricatures generally circulated in large numbers, there exists only one of the Council of War.

Artist

Honoré Daumier

Date

1872

Medium

Lithograph on tan wove paper

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922