Though one can view Honoré Daumier’s 19th century lithographs from a purely artistic or purely political standpoint, they were often a blend of both. An artist whose work was characterized by ...

This post explores the way in which people and events connected with the Crimean War were represented in the French and British satirical press. It focuses specifically on cartoons by Honoré Daumier, ...

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 ...

Pictured here is a lithograph by the French artist Honoré Daumier created for the journal Paris comique or Comic Paris. The caption reads, “Malheur au Pêcheur à la ligne qui se trouve sur celle d’un ...

The career of its subject, Honoré Daumier, reached across the restored Bourbon monarchy, constitutional monarchy of Louis-Philippe, 1848 revolution, Second Republic, Second Empire of Louis ...

Daumier, who worked hardest & longest, died blind and penniless in 1879 in a house given to him by Corot. No cartoonist of Daumier’s power, few painters so well endowed or so frustrated ...

Honore Daumier (1808-1879) consistently supported the left's anti-clericalist, anti-monarchist and anti-imperialist struggles for democracy and social justice. Wounded in the 1830 revolution, ...

All his life Honoré Daumier kept at his bedside a copy of Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Both writer and artist took human folly as their subject – Cervantes at epic scale, Daumier in small drawings ...

The situation is straight out of something by Honore Daumier, the great 19th century satirist who skewered France’s turbulent social and political life. UCLA’s Hammer Museum has one of the ...