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Honore Daumier
1808-1879
French
Honore Daumier Locations
In some 40 years of political and social commentary Honore Daumier created an enormously rich and varied record of Parisian middle-class life in the form of nearly 4,000 lithographs, about 1,000 wood engravings, and several hundred drawings and paintings. In them the comic spirit of Moli??re comes to life once again. After having been the scourge of Louis Philippe and the July Monarchy (1830-1848), Daumier continued as a satirist of Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire (1851-1870). Poor himself, the artist sympathized with the struggling bourgeois and proletarian citizens of Paris. As a man of the left, he battled for the establishment of a republic, which finally came in 1870. Liberals have always applauded Daumier; some conservatives, however, have been inclined to consider him woolly-minded.
Honore Daumier, born on Feb. 26, 1808, in Marseilles, was the son of a glazier. When Honore was 6, the family moved to Paris, where the elder Daumier hoped to win success as a poet. Honore grew up in a home in which humanistic concerns had some importance. A born draftsman and designer who was largely self-taught, he received some formal instruction from Alexandre Lenoir, one of Jacques Louis David students. An obscure artist named Ramelet taught Daumier the elements of the new, inexpensive, and popular technique of lithography. Daumier style is so much his own that it is not easy to disentangle influences from other artists. Rembrandt and Francisco Goya are usually mentioned, along with Peter Paul Rubens, the Venetian school, and photography.
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Painting ID:: 10969
The Laundress
CA. 1863.
1' 7 1/4" x 1' 1/4" ( 49 x 33.5 cm ).
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Painting ID:: 10972
Scene from a Comedy
( Moliere? ) Or a Scapin.
1' 1" x 9 3/4" ( 32.5 x 24.5 cm ).
Gift of Mrs. Dulac and Miss Turquois, 1928.
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Painting ID:: 10974
The Thieves and the Donkey
From La Fontaine.
1 11" x 1' 10" ( 58.5 x 54.5 cm ).
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Painting ID:: 10976
Don Quixote and the Dead Mule
1867.
4' 4 1/4" x 1' 9 1/2" ( 132.5 x 54.5 cm )
Gift of Baroness Eva Gebhard-Gourgaud, 1965.
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Painting ID:: 10979
Crispin and Scapin
Scapin and Silvester, CA, 1858 - 1860.
1' 11 3/4" x 2' 8 1/4" ( 60.5 x 82 cm ).
Gift of Societe des Amis du Louvre, 1912.
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Honore Daumier
1808-1879
French
Honore Daumier Locations
In some 40 years of political and social commentary Honore Daumier created an enormously rich and varied record of Parisian middle-class life in the form of nearly 4,000 lithographs, about 1,000 wood engravings, and several hundred drawings and paintings. In them the comic spirit of Moli??re comes to life once again. After having been the scourge of Louis Philippe and the July Monarchy (1830-1848), Daumier continued as a satirist of Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire (1851-1870). Poor himself, the artist sympathized with the struggling bourgeois and proletarian citizens of Paris. As a man of the left, he battled for the establishment of a republic, which finally came in 1870. Liberals have always applauded Daumier; some conservatives, however, have been inclined to consider him woolly-minded.
Honore Daumier, born on Feb. 26, 1808, in Marseilles, was the son of a glazier. When Honore was 6, the family moved to Paris, where the elder Daumier hoped to win success as a poet. Honore grew up in a home in which humanistic concerns had some importance. A born draftsman and designer who was largely self-taught, he received some formal instruction from Alexandre Lenoir, one of Jacques Louis David students. An obscure artist named Ramelet taught Daumier the elements of the new, inexpensive, and popular technique of lithography. Daumier style is so much his own that it is not easy to disentangle influences from other artists. Rembrandt and Francisco Goya are usually mentioned, along with Peter Paul Rubens, the Venetian school, and photography.
. Related Artists to Honore Daumier: | Amedeo Modigliani | Willem van Aelst | Carl Fredrik Hill | George Armfield | Aleksander Gierymski |
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