Honoré Daumier

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Honoré Daumier was eight years old when his father, a glazier and frame maker who had decided to pursue his poetic talents in Paris, sent for the wife and three sons he lad left behind in Marseilles. In Paris Daumier studied drawing with Alexandre Lenoir (1761-1839) and at the Académie Suisse. Around 1825 he began a five-year apprenticeship with the publisher and lithographer Zépherin Belliard (1798-?). The July revolution of 1830, which established Louis-Philippe as the constitutional monarch in France, coincided with Daumier's creation of satirical lithographs aimed at this new...

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Plates by Honoré Daumier

The Troubadour A catalogued plate
Art Lovers A catalogued plate
Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834 A catalogued plate
The Nightmare A catalogued plate
Singing Guitarist (recto) A catalogued plate
The Legislative Belly A catalogued plate
The Abandonment of Ariadne A catalogued plate
What the bourgeois calls a slight distraction A catalogued plate

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