Honoré Daumier

(French, 1808–1879)

Honoré Daumier was a French painter and printmaker best known for his caricatures critiquing and satirizing society and politics in 19th-century France. His two most famous characters were the bourgeois Robert Macaire and the evil Ratapoil, each depicted with grotesquely exaggerated features. Born on February 26, 1808 in Marseille, France, the artist went on study at the Académie Suisse followed by a stint working for the Belliard publishing house, where he first learned lithography. During the rule of Louis Phillipe, he was imprisoned for his infamous depiction of the king as Gargantua (the gluttonous giant in François Rabelais’ novel) in the magazine La Caricature. Charles Baudelaire once said of Daumier that he was, “one of the most important men, I will not say only of caricature, but also of Modern Art.” Daumier’s works are in the collections of the Louvre Museum in Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the National Gallery in London, and the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, among others. Daumier died on February 10, 1879 in Valmondois, France.

Honoré Daumier Artworks

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Horace-François-Bastien Sébastiani, comte Della...

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Horace-François-Bastien Sébastiani, comte Della...

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Charles Léonard Gallois ou L'ironiste

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Charles Léonard Gallois ou L'ironiste

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Joueurs de billiard (Le buveur)

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Joueurs de billiard (Le buveur)

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Le coin des politiques (from A La Brasserie), 1863

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Le coin des politiques (from A La Brasserie), 1863

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Nadar élevant la photographie à la hauteur..., 1862

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Nadar élevant la photographie à la hauteur..., 1862

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Enfoncé Lafayette! Atrappe, mon vieux!, 1834

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Enfoncé Lafayette! Atrappe, mon vieux!, 1834

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Voyage en chine (set of 20), 1843–1845

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Voyage en chine (set of 20), 1843–1845

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Physionomies des chemins de fer, pl. 1-5..., 1852

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Physionomies des chemins de fer, pl. 1-5..., 1852

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Allons donc, chers confrères, pl. 7 (from..., 1845

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Allons donc, chers confrères, pl. 7 (from..., 1845

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Moeurs conjugales, ensemble de planches , 1839–1842

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Moeurs conjugales, ensemble de planches , 1839–1842

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Gesellschaftsszene

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Gesellschaftsszene

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Gesellschaftsszene

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Gesellschaftsszene

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Gesellschaftsszene

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Gesellschaftsszene

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Untitled (+ Untitled; pair from Les gens de...

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Untitled (+ Untitled; pair from Les gens de...

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Membres de la société de secours du dix...

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Membres de la société de secours du dix...

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Le public du salon (+ another; 2 works), 1852

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Le public du salon (+ another; 2 works), 1852

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Histoire ancienne (+ 4 others, irgr; 5 works), 1841

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Histoire ancienne (+ 4 others, irgr; 5 works), 1841

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Robert-Macaire Avocat, 1836

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Robert-Macaire Avocat, 1836

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Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834, 1834

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Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834, 1834

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Le ventre législatif, 1834

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Le ventre législatif, 1834

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Le passé, le présent, l'avenir, 1834

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Le passé, le présent, l'avenir, 1834

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Mr. Guizot, 1833

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Mr. Guizot, 1833

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Mr. Étien, 1833

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Mr. Étien, 1833

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1830 et 1833, 1833

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1830 et 1833, 1833

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