Honoré Daumier
Artist
Charles François Daubigny
(1817 - 1878)
Datec. 1870-1876
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions76.2 × 62.9 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineSir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
Object number3245
DescriptionHonoré Daumier worked in a wide range of media including oils, watercolours, drawings, sculpture and lithographs. A strong believer in the French Republic, Daumier’s perceptive visual comments on the political and social mores of mid 19th France were published in the satirical journals La Caricature and Le Charivari. From 1863, Honoré Daumier, at the suggestion of the landscape painter Charles François Daubigny, began to spend his summers at Valmondois, two miles north of Auvers-sur-Oise in France, where the artist J.B.C. Corot had helped him acquire a house. Two yeas later Daumier settled there permanently. (JO'D)
Three-quarter face, head and shoulders of a man (the artist Honoré Daumier) looking to the left; he has a ruddy complexion, his hair and moustache are grey.
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