Friday, March 28, 2025

Honoré Daumier
(1808 - 1879)
 
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 and is still remembered today. He was a republican democrat (working class liberal), who satirized and lampooned the monarchy, politicians, the judiciary, lawyers, the bourgeoisie, as well as his countrymen and human nature in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honoé_Daumier


Don Quixote in the Mountains
c. 1850
oil on panel
31 x 39 cm.
Artizon Muzeum, Tokyo
https://www.artizon.museum/collection/art/19500

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