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Plate 44: Robert Macaire, Barrister, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

Honoré Daumier | Aubert et Cie | Charles Philipon | Aubert et Cie | Junca

1838

Medium

Lithograph on wove paper

About Honoré Daumier

1810–1879 • France

The Parisian public admired Daumier as the newspaper caricaturist who so perceptively skewered their daily lives, but they never accepted him as a painter. Daumier died blind and a pauper without ever having received a painting commission. A glazier's son who moved to Paris at age eight, Daumier spent his time after apprentice jobs copying works in the Louvre. When a museum official persuaded his parents to allow him to become an artist, he began his artistic training, mastering the new medium of lithography. Comment on works: genre

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