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.

The caricature was barred from publication. Its lithographic stone was destroyed and Daumier was handed a six-month prison ... drawings, paintings, and sculpture — largely drawn from the art gallery’s ...

ALL QUESTIONS concerning the ambiguous world of Daumier sculpture have been snatched away from a dusty drawer of art history and neatly placed in a revolutionary exhibition at the Fogg Museum.

Daumier’s print highlights caricature’s sharpened teeth ... identify Joseph McCarthy’s widow’s peak or Boris Yeltsin’s bulbous nose. A bronze sculpture by Pat Oliphant, one of four in the exhibition, ...

Gaultier renders a real service in his analysis of the work of three representative French carica- turists, Daumier, Gavarni, and Forain, and in his comments on contemporary caricature.

During the rule of Louis Phillipe, he was imprisoned for his infamous depiction of the king as Gargantua (the gluttonous giant in François Rabelais’ novel) in the magazine La Caricature. Charles ...