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Something wrong?He made France laugh at its kings and then jailed him for it. Daumier's caricatures ran in the papers for forty years - sharp, relentless, aimed at everyone from monarchs to lawyers to the bourgeoisie - while his paintings, which his peers quietly revered, went almost entirely unseen until the final months of his life.
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"C'est pourtant pas pour ça que j'avions voté oui", déclare un ouvrier devant sa maison en ruines - estampe - btv1b53027422g
"Disciples de M.r Cobden, dans l'exercice de leurs pacifiques fonctions", qui consistent à martyriser un chien en voulant le soigner, ou à séparer à coups de parapluie des chiens qui se battent - estampe - btv1b53018679g
"Enflammant le courage de ses Cosaques - Il sera distribué aux plus braves des chandelles d'honneur !" annonce un chef cosaque en passant devant le front de ses troupes - estampe - btv1b53022087z
"Enfoncé Lafayette !... Attrappe, Mon Vieux !" bougonne Louis-Philippe en feignant la tristesse dans le cimetière où la dépouille mortelle du général est accompagnée par une foule nombreuse - estampe - btv1b53006017t
"Ils ont peur de l'eau... nous verrons s'ils craignent moins le feu !...". Des Autrichiens traversant à gué une rivière - estampe - btv1b530234134
"Ils ont peur de l'eau... nous verrons s'ils craignent moins le feu !...". Des Autrichiens traversant à gué une rivière - estampe - btv1b530234653
"La Paix universelle étant décrétée, l'honorable sir Cobden trouve moyen d'utiliser les généraux qui se croisaient les bras" en faisant cirer ses souliers par l'un d'eux, et porter son baluchon par un autre -... - btv1b53018682rIn their own words 3
, Dear Monsieur, I can make a drawing for you; when you have time to see me we will talk about it. I am always at home during the day. I have the honor of greeting you, h. Daumier.
My dear Genron, I am forced to write to you because I can not go to see you because I am detained at Ste. Pelagie by a slight indisposition.. ..I eagerly await your response.
The swarm of ducks so darkens the sky that poor Europe does not know which way to go
In their orbit
About this person
Daumier came from poverty, working by twelve, learning lithography in his teens and churning out caricatures for satirical sheets after the 1830 Revolution. A cartoon depicting Louis Philippe as Gargantua landed him in jail in 1832; after his release the September Laws muzzled the press and his targets shifted to daily Parisian life and veiled political barbs. He married in 1846, moved to the Île Saint-Louis, and began painting seriously alongside Baudelaire, Corot, and Courbet, though the public ignored the canvases. His cartooning fell out of favor in 1860 and years of debt and obscurity followed, broken by a new contract in 1864. He spent his last decade in Valmondois, eyesight failing, painting Don Quixote again and again, until a pension arrived in 1877 and a Paris exhibition finally brought recognition just before he died in February 1879.
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