Paris: Aubert et Cie, Lacrampe. 1839. Binding: Loose leaves of plates only. , Notes: Text in French.
Honoré Daumier (1808 – 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second Napoleonic Empire in 1870. He earned a living throughout most of his life producing caricatures and cartoons of political figures and satirizing the behavior of his countrymen in newspapers and periodicals, for which he became well known in his lifetime and is still known today. He was a republican democrat who attacked the bourgeoisie, the church, lawyers and the judiciary, politicians, and the monarchy. He was jailed for several months in 1832 after the publication of Gargantua, a particularly offensive and discourteous depiction of King Louis-Philippe. Daumier was also a serious painter, loosely associated with realism. , Size: Quarto (252x190 mm), Illustration: 100 plates, with title and table. Lacking plate #83. , Category: Book Caricatures;. Item #B6738

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