The Barricade
Edouard Manet French
Printer Lemercier & Cie. French
Not on view
Manet produced this lithograph based on the double-sided drawing presented nearby. Through his layered sources and the explicit depiction of violence, he makes clear his condemnation of the government’s actions. Consequently, the print remained unpublished until the year after Manet’s death. Beyond its political critique, the print displays the artist’s creativity with the lithographic medium. Broad strokes made with the side of the crayon indicate the brightly lit architecture in the background, and reserved areas of the paper suggest the rifles’ smoke.
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