HONORE DAUMIER
(1808-1879)
Copyright © Trustees of Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford.
Extract taken from Prints, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery .
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HONORE DAUMIER (1808-1879) |
| Mons. Baillot |
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| 1833 | |
| Lithograph | |
| 35.7 x 27.5 | |
| P.527 | |
| Daumier was born into a poor family in Marseilles, and from childhood took drawing lessons, initially studying under Alexandre Lenoir (1762-1839), sketching in his spare time at the Académie Suisse and the Louvre. He was introduced to lithography, experimenting with the medium by the age of fourteen whilst working for daily newspapers (the financial situation having forced him to find work from an early age) and in the course of his career went on to produce some five thousand satirical prints. His reputation was made by his political caricatures (see P.509) but the success of these works also forced a new direction in Daumier's work. In 1835 political caricature was banned in France so he turned his attention to social caricature and book illustration. This situation had already been foreseen by Charles Philipon (owner of La Caricature) who created a new daily newspaper as early as 1832, Le Charivari, to which Daumier contributed satirical works, mostly directed against the bourgeoisie in Paris. | |
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Copyright © Trustees of Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. Extract taken from Prints, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery . |
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