The Philadelphia show includes, besides 152 lithographs and 52 oils and watercolors, seven pieces of Daumier’s sculpture and three original lithograph stones from which prints can still be made ...

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 ...

Charles Baudelaire once said of Daumier that he was, “one of the most important men, I will not say only of caricature, but also of Modern Art.” Daumier’s works are in the collections of the Louvre ...

Daumier’s print highlights caricature’s sharpened teeth: The artist was in fact fined and imprisoned for the work. The exhibition turns, on its fourth and final wall, to the Americas and the present.