Auguste Desperet, "With these black clouds swirling around him, he no longer sees his chariot's giddy career," (1832)

Auguste Desperet, "With these black clouds swirling around him, he no longer sees his chariot's giddy career" (1832). Color lithograph from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Reproduced from Robert Philippe, Political Graphics: Art as a Weapon, Phaidon, 1980, 147. Desperet's caricature shows Louis Philippe driving over a group of students as the sun, representing the glories of the barricades in July of 1830, disappears behind dark clouds.

Auguste Desperet, "With these black clouds swirling around him, he no longer sees his chariot's giddy career," (1832)

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