The Fugitives

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During the 1850s Daumier produced a group of works on the subject of fugitives, refugees or emigrants. We don't know whether these works have a political motive – mass deportations took place after the revolution of 1848 and again after Louis Napoleon seized power in 1851 – or not.

As in 'The Fugitives', these works show a procession of figures, some walking, others mounted, some carrying baggage, moving diagonally back into space, disappearing over the horizon of a bleak, bare mountain landscape. Three genuine oil versions are known to exist. Our work, with its muddy, bituminous picture surface and its lack of individual characterization of the figures, and of colour, is probably not by Daumier.
Title

The Fugitives

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 15.5 x W 31.1 cm

Accession number

35.218

Acquisition method

gift from William Burrell, 1925

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

signed/dated

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