Portrait of Honoré Daumier
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
12 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. (30.8 x 19.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Mary Martin Fund, 1990
Accession Number
1990.1046
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About the Artist
Etienne Carjat|Honoré Daumier · 1828–1906
Étienne Carjat (1828–1906) was a French photographer, caricaturist, and journalist who became one of the defining portraitists of nineteenth-century Parisian cultural life. Born in Fareins in the Ain department, he arrived in Paris as a young man and initially made his name as a caricaturist and writer, contributing to several satirical publications and cofounding the journal Le Boulevard in 1861....