This copy (50cmx100cm) was produced in 1966 by the noted artist Duy Nhat (or Le Nang Hien) from his own original watercolor, 67cmx109cm, painted in 1958
This copy (50cmx100cm) was produced in 1966 by the noted artist Duy Nhat (or Le Nang Hien) from his own original watercolor, 67cmx109cm, painted in 1958. This lively caricature portrays the life of the Vietnamese people weighed down by a three-level pyramid of oppression and exploitation: at the top, the tyranny of the French colonizers; beneath them the Nguyen King and his courtiers; and below them, landowners and other oppressors supported by the French regime.