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Honoré Daumier
Honoré-Victorin Daumier 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 French Empire in 1870. He earned a living producing caricatures and cartoons in newspapers and periodicals such as La Caricature and Le Charivari, for which he became well known in his lifetime an…
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culture · French artist (1808–1879) · painter · architectural drafter · caricaturist · sculptor · lithographer · engraver · illustrator · graphic artist · visual artist · draftsperson · also Honoré Daumier, Honoré Victorin Daumier, Onore Viktorʹen Domʹe, Domie, Onorē Domjē, Honore-Victorin Daumier
Born 26 February 1808 · Died 10 February 1879 · Q187506
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 2 entries
The New Criterion: Honoré Daumier: public and private
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The Art Newspaper: Acquisitions round-up: the Städel Museum in Frankfurt shows off its Honoré Daumier bequest
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: The art of Honoré Daumier – in pictures
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2008· 1 entry
With a number of exhibitions in Asia, America, Australia and Europe
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1879· 2 entries
Died 1879-02-10.
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Career landmark: funeral.
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1877· 2 entries
And the following year a major exhibition of his paintings was held in Paris, which received significant recognition in the final months of his life
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Which was increased to 400 a month (4,800 annually) in 1878
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1870· 1 entry
During the Franco-Prussian War, the newspapers stopped publishing and Daumier was signing promissory notes for his debts
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1868· 1 entry
And bestowed it to him as a surprise, in a letter reading: "Dear old comrade: I had a little house at Valnondois, near Isle-Adam, which was of no use to me
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1866· 1 entry
Was producing 70 lithographs a year and earning 200 francs a month
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1864· 3 entries
And he resumed making caricatures for an appreciative audience in Paris
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And he returned to making caricatures and cartoons for a living, and found a receptive audience when he did
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Had made 100 lithographs and received 400 francs a month, but with very little time to paint
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1863· 1 entry
The Drunkenness of Silenus (1849, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais), that had been exhibited in the solon of 1850
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1860· 1 entry
Le Charivari dropped him from their staff and ceased to publish his cartoons
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1852· 1 entry
Celebrating Daumier's lithographs and prints calling him "one of our leading men, not only in caricature, but in modern art
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1848· 1 entry
Daumier embarked again on his political campaign, still in the service of Le Charivari, which he left in 1863 and rejoined in 1864
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1846· 1 entry
And moved to the Île Saint-Louis where they lived until 1863
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1834· 2 entries
La Caricature followed La Silhouette and collapsed after relentless prosecutions and fines from the monarchy
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Produced the lithograph Rue Transnonain, 15 April 1834 depicting the massacre in the Rue Transnonain which was part of the April 1834 riots in Paris
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1832· 1 entry
After the publication of Gargantua, a particularly offensive depiction of the King, Louis Philippe
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1830· 1 entry
Starting up just as La Silhouette was folding under pressure from the monarchy
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1822· 1 entry
Became protégé to Alexandre Lenoir, a friend of Daumier's father and the founder of the Musée des Monuments Francais (now Musée national des Monuments Français), who trained Daumier in the fundamentals of art
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1819· 1 entry
Financial success was minimal and the family lived in poverty
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1814· 1 entry
Followed by his wife and the young Daumier in 1816
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1808· 1 entry
Born 1808-02-26.
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