Artist
H
Honoré-Victorin Daumier
1808–1879
132130
Works
71
Years lived
Painter
Style
Honoré-Victorin’s work is defined by its painter sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.
Selected works
132130 pieces
“- Here, Eudoxie, take my bear skin... since from now on I will not have the pleasure any more to wear it, I give it to you to make a muff out of it... This way I have at least the satisfaction of seeing it from time to time”
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
The Print Collector
Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
Nadar Elevating Photography to the Heights of Art, plate 367 from Souvenirs d’artistes
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834, October 2, 1834, plate 24 from L’Association mensuelle
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
"- Can you see the comet?... just there, at the tip of my finger ... don't lose sight of my finger tip!," plate 5 from La Comète De 1857
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
Family Scene
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
“- What a fuss this sour-face from the fifth floor is making! Wearing a hat just to buy two cups of milk for one sou! - Oh, Madame Capitaine, aren't we fancy today...,” plate 36 Types Parisiens
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
"- My God! Madame Bombec, what happened to you? - Don't mention it, my dear, it's horrible. The world is going from bad to worse, I would rather be janitor at the botanical garden! You know that Bézuchet from the fifth floor, the one that always insists that her good-for-nothing daughter who is fat around the hips has become..... I only replied: Ah, well! - And that's the person who… - Of course, even a blind man can see that!,” plate 30 from Types Parisiens
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
Malbroug s'en va-t-en Guerre...
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
The Past, the Present, the Future, plate 349
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
An Activist, from Les Femmes Socialistes
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
The Grape Gatherer, from Les Bons Bourgeois
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
A New Outfit for the Lion's Hunt, plate 395 from Actualités
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
“- You seems to enjoy doing my work. In exchange I could offer doing your job: I will go for a ride in your coach!,” plate 249 from Les Parisiens A La Campagne
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
“You Sniff the Merchandise… Before Buying It,” plate 32 from Types Parisiens
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
"It fits you like a glove!," plate 34 from Types Parisiens
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
"The thermometer of the engineer Chevalier was right... at 10 degrees the large rivers as well as the noses have cought a cold... just imagine that it might take three weeks for my nose to thaw!...," plate 5 from Paris L'hiver
Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808-1879) printed by Aubert & Cie. (French, active 19th century) later published in Le Charivari (French,1832-1915)
"- How are you feeling today, Mr. Chapolard? - Madame Pochet, a concierge who knows how to behave, should address her landlord only in the third person. - How can I talk to you in the third person, since you are the first person I am seeing this morning," plate 11 from Croquis Parisiens
Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808-1879) printed by Imprimerie Charles Trinocq (French, active 19th century) later published by Maison Martinet (French, active 19th century) later published in Le Charivari (French, 1832-1915)
“- Sire! Lisbon has been captured. - aaaah!!... and I dreamt that I had fought courageously!,” plate 304
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
"- Oh my God, Mama, mama!........ For heaven's sake..... my daughter, my daughter!!!," plate 26 from Pastorales
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879