Honoré Victorin Daumier bio

Birth name : Honoré Victorin Daumier
Born : February 26, 1808(1808-02-26) Marseille
Died : February 10, 1879 (aged 70) Valmondois
Nationality :French
Field : Printmaking, Painting, Sculpture

detail :
his prodigious activity in the field of caricature — the list of Daumier's lithographed plates compiled in 1904 numbers no fewer than 3,958 — he also painted. Except for the searching truthfulness of his vision and the powerful directness of his brushwork, it would be difficult to recognize the creator of Robert Macaire, of Les Bas bleus, Les Bohémiens de Paris, and the Masques, in the paintings of Christ and His Apostles (Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam), or in his Good Samaritan, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Christ Mocked, or even in the sketches in the Ionides Collection at South Kensington