Honore Daumier spent his days wandering about Paris like a man with nothing to do. He rode the horsecars, peeked into Parliament and sat twirling his thumbs through the drone and drama of ...

Daumier, who worked hardest & longest, died blind and penniless in 1879 in a house given to him by Corot. No cartoonist of Daumier’s power, few painters so well endowed or so frustrated ...

Pictured here is a lithograph by the French artist Honoré Daumier created for the journal Paris comique or Comic Paris. The caption reads, “Malheur au Pêcheur à la ligne qui se trouve sur celle d’un ...

The career of its subject, Honoré Daumier, reached across the restored Bourbon monarchy, constitutional monarchy of Louis-Philippe, 1848 revolution, Second Republic, Second Empire of Louis ...

Honoré Daumier exhibited little during his lifetime, and sold even less. His subject matter was not what the public wanted. What prosperous collector would be eager to stare at the enshadowed ...

All his life Honoré Daumier kept at his bedside a copy of Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Both writer and artist took human folly as their subject – Cervantes at epic scale, Daumier in small drawings ...