# Ratapoil \(front view\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DAUMIER, Honoré]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Bronze, height 38 cm ## Commentary Daumier's sculptures evince a liking for caricature, but he used it as a political weapon. The plaster of Ratapoil, "a synthesis of the shady agent, of the indefatigable auxiliary of Napoleonic propaganda," was hidden throughout the Second Empire and only reappeared in 1878, but it immediately served as point of departure for caricatures which appeared in the satirical journals of the period. ## Related artworks - [A Disgruntled Litigant]() - [Burden]() - [Charles Philipon]() - [Charles Philipon]() - [Crispin and Scapin]() - [Don Quixote and Sancho Panza]() - [Family on the Barricades in 1848]() - [Guizot or the Bore]() - [Intermission at the Comédie Française]() - [Jean-Auguste Chevandier de Valdrome, Parliamentarian \(The Fool\)]() - [Laundress on the Quai d'Anjou]() - [Laurent Cunin, Politician \(The Angry Man\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()