# The Drama

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## Artwork

- Artist: [DAUMIER, Honoré](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 98 x 90 cm

## Commentary

This is an incisive work with the emphasis on the lighting. Daumier used the same subject in an 1864 lithograph.

## Related artworks

- [A Disgruntled Litigant](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/a-disgruntled-litigant-r18e842c96a3b60>)
- [Burden](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/burden-rf24b868ca8d896>)
- [Charles Philipon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/charles-philipon-r4fdf299265441d>)
- [Charles Philipon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/charles-philipon-r623da8d3c41743>)
- [Crispin and Scapin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/crispin-and-scapin-r6fb68672f004c2>)
- [Don Quixote and Sancho Panza](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/don-quixote-and-sancho-panza-r00e9bbe76c5cc6>)
- [Family on the Barricades in 1848](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/family-on-the-barricades-in-1848-rdbb40aa530505b>)
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- [Intermission at the Comédie Française](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/intermission-at-the-comdie-franaise-r720b653f3f940b>)
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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)