Published: Le Charivari
France, 1833
Series: Series politique
Periodical: Le Charivari, 7 November 1833

Often called as Michelangelo of caricature, Honoré-Victorin Daumier February 26, 1808 – February 10, 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second Napoleonic Empire in 1870. He earned a living throughout most of his life producing caricatures and cartoons of political figures and satirizing the behavior of his countrymen in newspapers and periodicals, for which he became well known in his lifetime and is still known today.