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Honoré Daumier (portrait by Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910), a photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist. Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) - Self-portrait Nadar (self-portrait) Nadar was a caricaturist for and the (, and also took erotic photographs. On his passing in 1910, Nadar was interred in Le... Nadar)

Honoré Daumier ( Events January 1 - Importation of slaves into the United States is banned February 11 - Russia issues an ultimatum to France, Finland. March 26 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII April 6 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company. May 2 - Peninsular War: The... 1808 - Events January January 2 - Fred Spofforth claims the first Hat-trick in test cricket. January 11 - Anglo-Zulu War begins. January 22 - Zulu troops massacre British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana. At Rorkes Drift, outnumbered British soldiers drive the attackers away after hours of fighting. February February 12... 1879) was a The French Republic or France ( French: Official language French1 Capital Paris Largest City Paris President: Jacques Chirac Prime Minister: Jean-Pierre Raffarin Area - Total2 - Metropolitan France3 - % water Ranked 42nd 674,843 km² (260,558 sq. mi.) Ranked 47th 551,695 km²4 (213,011 sq... French A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. List of caricaturists: Max Beerbohm Oscar Berger George Bickham the Younger Steve Brodner Henry William Bunbury Kate Carew Émile Courtet George Cruikshank Honoré Daumier James Gillray Al Hirschfeld John Leech Thomas Nast Ronald Searle Ralph Steadman Thomas Rowlandson James Sayers... caricaturist and For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. for a trade. See: decorator. In the fine arts, a painter is a person who creates paintings—two-dimensional artworks—by applying a coloured emulsion called paint to a flat... painter.

Born in City motto: Actibus immensis urbs fulget Massiliensis. ( Latin: By her great deeds, Marseilles shines in the world) City proper ( commune) Région Provence-Alpes-Côte-dAzur Département Bouches-du-Rhône (13) Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin ( UMP) (since 1995) Area 240.62 km... Marseille, he showed in his earliest youth an irresistible inclination towards the artistic profession, which his father vainly tried to check by placing him first with a huissier and subsequently with a bookseller. Having mastered the technique of Lithography is a method for printing on a smooth surface, as well as a method of manufacturing semiconductor and MEMS devices. Printing The principle Lithography as a manual process is based on the repulsion of oil and water. The image is placed on the surface with an oil-based medium... lithography, Daumier started his artistic career by producing plates for music publishers, and illustrations for advertisements; these were followed by anonymous work for publishers, in which he followed the style of Charlet and displayed considerable enthusiasm for the ) of the French Republic from November 11, 1799 until May 18, 1804, then Emperor of the French (), before being decisively defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium on June 18, 1815, followed shortly afterwards by his capture by the British and his exile to the island of Saint Helena... Napoleonic legend.

When, in the reign of Louis-Philippe of France (October 6, 1773–August 26, 1850), served as the Orleanist king of the French from 1830 to 1848. Born in Paris, Louis-Philippe, as the son of Louis Philippe Joseph, duc dOrl ans (known as Philippe galit ), descended directly from King Louis XIII. During... Louis Philippe, Philipon launched the comic journal, La Caricature, Daumier joined its staff, which included such powerful artists as Devéria, Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804-1860), French illustrator and lithographer, was born in Paris. At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. He became acquainted with Cabanel, who made him apply his skill to the decoration of... Raffet and Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (September 13, 1803 - March 17, 1847), French caricaturist, generally known by the pseudonym of Grandville the professional name of his grandparents, who were actors was born at Nancy. He received his first instruction in drawing from his father, a miniature painter, and at the age... Grandville, and started upon his pictorial campaign of scathing satire upon the foibles of the bourgeoisie, the corruption of the law and the incompetence of a blundering government. His caricature of the king as " , which became the second volume of the series, which was published first, around 1532. Then Rabelais wrote of Pantagruels birth and upbringing in The Ending The epic journey ends with Pantagruel producing a large shit, perhaps the ultimate commentary on the subjects of politics and religion which the books... Gargantua" led to Daumier's imprisonment for six months at Ste Pelagic in 1832. The publication of La Caricature was discontinued soon after, but Philipon provided a new field for Daumier's activity when he founded the Charivari.

For this journal Daumier produced his famous social caricatures, in which bourgeois society is held up to ridicule in the figure of Robert Macaire, the hero of a then popular melodrama. Another series, 'L'histoire ancienne', was directed against the pseudoclassicism which held the art of the period in fetters. In 1848 Daumier embarked again on his political campaign, still in the service of Charivari, which he left in 1860 and rejoined in 1864.

In spite of his prodigious activity in the field of caricature - the list of Daumier's lithographed plates compiled in 1904 numbers no fewer than 3,958 - he found time for flight in the higher sphere of painting. Except for the searching truthfulness of his vision and the powerful directness of his brushwork, it would be difficult to recognize the creator of Robert Macaire, of Les Bas bleus, Les Bohémiens de Paris, and the Masques, in the paintings of "Christ and His Apostles" at the The Rijksmuseum Rembrandt van Rijn: The Nightwatch 1642 Johannes Vermeer: Milkmaid 1658-1660 The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands, located in Amsterdam. It is dedicated to arts, crafts and history. The museum was founded in 1800 in The Hague to exhibit the collections of the Dutch stadholders... Rijksmuseum in Municipality of Amsterdam , and its numerous coffee shops selling cannabis. History Dam Square in the late 17th century: painting by Jan Adriaensz. Berckheyde (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden) (Valiant, Resolute, and Merciful) which is displayed on the coat of arms, was bestowed on it by Queen Wilhelmina in 1947 in recognition... Amsterdam, or in his "Good Samaritan", "Don Quixote and Sancho Panza", "Christ Mocked", or even in the sketches in the lonides Collection at South Kensington.

But as a painter, Daumier, one of the pioneers of -1... naturalism, was before his time, and did not meet with success until in 1878, a year before his death, when M. DurandRuel collected his works for exhibition at his galleries and demonstrated the full range of the genius of the man who has been well called the " Michelangelo Buonarroti, by Marcello Venusti Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564*) was a Renaissance painter, sculptor, poet and architect. He is famous for creating the fresco ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, one of the most stupendous works in all of Western art, as well as... Michelangelo of caricature". At the time of this exhibition Daumier, totally blind, was living in a cottage at Valmondois, which was placed at his disposal by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (portrait by Nadar) Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 26, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter. Camille Corot was born in Paris, in a house on the Quai by the rue du Bac, now demolished. His family were well-to-do bourgeois people... Corot, and where he breathed his last in 1879. An important exhibition of his works was held at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1900.

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DAUMIER'S LIFE

If you wish to study his life and oeuvre in depth, consult the DAUMIER BIOGRAPHY (http://www.daumier.org/9.0.html) section of the DAUMIER website with a chronology of Daumier's life and basic background information and historical events of the period. At the same time, you will find a context to some other well-known artists who were Honoré Daumier’s contemporaries.

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DAUMIER BIBLIOGRAPHY

For more detailed information on DAUMIER's life go to DAUMIER BIBLIOGRAPHYwhere (http://www.daumier.org/23.0.html) you will find some 1’500 references to books or articles covering the topic. To our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive Daumier bibliography available at this time.

DAUMIER EXHIBITIONS from 1849 to the present

A chronological list showing over 800 EXHIBITIONS (http://www.daumier.org/21.0.html) starting as early as 1849 and ending in the present. You will find information about all the exhibitions, which were in one way or another connected to Daumier.

DAUMIER ILLUSTRATIONS, PHOTOS

A great number of IMAGES (http://images.google.com/images?q=daumier.org&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search) of Daumier's lithographies and paintings can be seen here.

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DAUMIER'S LIFE

DAUMIER BIBLIOGRAPHY

DAUMIER EXHIBITIONS from 1849 to the present

DAUMIER ILLUSTRATIONS, PHOTOS

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