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The painting depicts a group of political fugitives crossing a mountainous landscape, on feet and on horseback. A landscape of dunes is traversed by a column of curved, schematically, hardly recognizable, drawn figures. Contours are defined by thick black lines. The chiaroscuro intensifies the drama of the scene. Daumier manages to convey desperation and anguish through this simple diagonal composition of yellow and brown tones.
chiaroscuro