DAUMIER, HONOR(-VICTORIN)


Meaning of DAUMIER, HONOR(-VICTORIN) in English

born Feb. 20/26, 1808, Marseille died Feb. 11, 1879, Valmondois, Fr. At the Palais de Justice, gouache on paper by Honor Daumier; in the prolific French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society. His paintings, though hardly known during his lifetime, helped introduce techniques of Impressionism into modern art.

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