... old man projecting into the picture at the right. The Rue Transnonain was a street in Paris inhabited by workers who were suspected of participation in the disorders of the Republican Revolt in 1834. When it was fired on from an apartment, the civil guard broke in and shot the inhabitants, innocent or guilty. Unlike Neoclassicist painters such as David who would have idealized the figures in the scene as much as possible, Daumier shows the grossness of the ... of detail in the background figures. The low viewpoint emphasises the monumentality of the grouping. Daumier uses many layers of...

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