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Daumier Drawings

Honoré Daumier (1808–1879) is best known as the nimble caricaturist of French politics and the habits of the bourgeoisie. The nearly 4,000 lithographs he created for the Parisian press have long been appreciated as magic windows on the perils and follies of everyday life and continue to be widely admired. However, it is in his rarer and less famous drawings and watercolors, the private work he made for himself and a very limited audience, that Daumier most clearly emerges as an artist of exceptional genius. Indeed, it was on the strength of his skill as a draughtsman that Baudelaire declared Daumier the equal of Ingres and Delacroix. This volume accompanies an exhibition at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, offering the most extensive display of Daumier's drawings since the Paris retrospectives of 1901 and 1934. Featuring about 150 works from twenty of the world's foremost museums and from private collections, it includes casual sketches produced by the artist to vent his restless imagination as well as many of the highly finished watercolors he designed as formal presentations of his art. By combining Daumier's drawings with selected examples of his paintings, prints, and bronzes, this book traces the evolution of the artist's succinct and emphatically expressive style from its roots in the European tradition exemplified by Rembrandt, Rubens, and Fragonard to its modern manifestations in the works of Degas, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Beckmann. In the course of his long and productive career Daumier returned again and again to favorite themes, often after considerable lapses of time. Thus the works here are grouped by their subject matter into six sections: studies of individual figures and faces; narrative scenes inspired by history or literature; views of contemporary urban and domestic life; dramatic portrayals of lawyers in court; depictions of street performers; and episodes in the wanderings of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Five essays, in which the exhibition's curators are joined by two other scholars of nineteenth-century art history, investigate particular aspects of Daumier's work as a draughtsman: the character of his fluid, energetic style; the complex iconography and structure of his drawings; the essentially sculptural nature of his art; his effective mastery of pose and gesture; and his personal view of the artist's role in society.
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The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 53 include an exquisite pair of 17th-century Chinese birthday gift portraits of an elderly couple, a hidden painting of a Rococo-inspired nude underneath Manet’s 1862 Mademoiselle V. . . . in the Costume of an Espada, and a new identification of the central figure in Daumier’s The Third-Class Carriage.
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The Artist Project: Swoon

December 7, 2015
Artist Swoon reflects on Honoré Daumier's The Third-Class Carriage in this episode of The Artist Project.
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Nineteenth-Century French Realism

October 1, 2004

By Ross Finocchio

Rejecting the idealized classicism of academic art and the exotic themes of Romanticism, Realism was based on direct observation of the modern world.
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The Neoclassical Temple

October 1, 2003

By Cybele Gontar

The Greek temple with its mathematically proportioned columns and pediments became reborn as mansion, church, bank, museum, or other commercial institution.
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In Line with Van Gogh

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Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)

Date: 1864
Accession Number: 29.100.129

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Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)

Date: 186[3?]
Accession Number: 47.122

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Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)

Date: ca. 1860–65
Accession Number: 29.100.200

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Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)

Date: by 1861
Accession Number: 54.143.1

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Etienne Carjat (French, Fareins 1828–1906 Paris)

Date: 1861
Accession Number: 1990.1046

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Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)

Date: April 18, 1857
Accession Number: 62.650.328

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Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)

Date: March 23, 1857
Accession Number: 62.650.325

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Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)

Date: February 18, 1857
Accession Number: 62.650.326

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Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)

Date: probably 19th century
Accession Number: 32.173