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Honoré Daumier

1808 - 1879

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Honoré-Victorin Daumier (French: [ɔnɔʁe domje]; February 26, 1808 – February 10 or 11, 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 producing caricatures and cartoons in newspapers and periodicals such as La Caricature and Le Charivari, for which he became well known in his lifetime and is still remembered today. He was a republican democrat (working class liberal), who satirized and lampooned the monarchy, politicians, the judiciary, lawyers, the bourgeoisie, as well as his countrymen and human nature in general. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Honoré Daumier has received more than 657,119 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Honoré Daumier is the 87th most popular painter (down from 79th in 2019), the 250th most popular biography from France (down from 235th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Painter.

Daumier is most famous for his caricatures of the bourgeoisie, the aristocracy, and the clergy.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Honoré Daumier ranks 87 out of 2,023. Before him are Jackson Pollock, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Canaletto, Pietro Perugino, Berthe Morisot, and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. After him are Duccio, Mary Cassatt, Paolo Uccello, Rogier van der Weyden, Francis Picabia, and Oskar Kokoschka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Honoré Daumier ranks 3. Before him are Andrew Johnson, and Napoleon III. After him are Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Antonio Meucci, Frederick VII of Denmark, Patrice de MacMahon, Emir Abdelkader, Jefferson Davis, Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, Gérard de Nerval, and Thomas Cook. Among people deceased in 1879, Honoré Daumier ranks 3. Before him are James Clerk Maxwell, and Bernadette Soubirous. After him are Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Adolf Anderssen, Albrecht von Roon, Gottfried Semper, Thomas Couture, Julia Margaret Cameron, August Grisebach, and Charles De Coster.

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In France

Among people born in France, Honoré Daumier ranks 250 out of 6,770. Before him are Simone Weil (1909), Berthe Morisot (1841), Oscar I of Sweden (1799), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Pope Callixtus II (1065), and Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796). After him are Philip III of France (1245), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Pope Leo IX (1002), Georges Méliès (1861), Serge Gainsbourg (1928), and Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Honoré Daumier ranks 26. Before him are Gustave Doré (1832), François Boucher (1703), Alfred Sisley (1839), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Berthe Morisot (1841), and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732). After him are Francis Picabia (1879), Paul Signac (1863), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Claude Lorrain (1600), and Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659).

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