Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le vieux clown, ou Paillasse (The Old Clown) s.d. Watercolor, 17.1 × 10.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The theme of the old clown (or Paillasse), of which several versions are known, takes place in the series of…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Quand le crime ne donne pas (When Crime Doesn’t Pay) 1848 Lithograph with watercolour on paper, 32 x 24.8 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Saltimbanques errantes (Wandering Saltimbanques) 1847–1850 Oil on wood, 32.6 x 24.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington An older man, a woman, and a child who holds a chair upside-down on his head stand near each other in…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) À l’Eglise (In Church) 1855–1857 Oil on wood, 15.2 x 21.7 x 0.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Théâtre Français (French Theater) c.1856 Oil on wood, 25.9 x 35 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le Troubadour (The Troubadour) 1868–1873 Oil on fabric, 83.6 x 56.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Daumier was called the “Michelangelo of caricature” and especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les deux confrères, Avocats (The Two Colleagues, Lawyers) 1865–1870 Watercolor on paper, 25.4 × 19.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York The approximately four thousand lithographic caricatures that Honoré Daumier produced were widely circulated in nineteenth-century Paris, where they…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le Wagon de première classe (The First Class Carriage) 1864 Watercolor on paper, 20.5 x 30 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Nayades de la Seine (Naiads of the Seine) 1847 Color lithograph on paper, 19.2 x 24.1 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les Ribaudes (The Ribalds) 1848–1849 Oil on canvas, 128.9 x 96.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Honoré Daumier was one of the greatest caricaturists of the 19th century, creating thousands of keenly observed images of Parisian social types. This…