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Definition of Daumier
1. Noun. French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daumier
Literary usage of Daumier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"Daumier made a virtue of necessity, and renounced the attempt to draw epic poetry
from ... We should learn to pronounce Delacroix and Daumier in one breath. ..."
2. Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning by Willard Huntington Wright, S. S. Van Dine (1915)
"Daumier created both qualities simultaneously as one emotion. ... With Daumier
it meant a plastic building up of volume from the background forward. ..."
3. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"The artist, Honoré Daumier, had become blind, and it was reported that his ...
Corot purchased the villa and sent the title deeds to Daumier with the ..."
4. Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker (1910)
"Daumier Mr. Frank ... of the Lenox Library print department, shows nineteen
portfolios which hold about seven hundred lithographs by Honors" Daumier. ..."
5. Some Masters of Lithography by Atherton Curtis (1897)
"HONORE Daumier. O one has ever been more misrepresented than Daumier. ...
Daumier is beyond all doubt the greatest caricaturist that lithography has ..."
6. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"'MY FIELDS PILLAGED, MY HORSE CARRIED OFF, MY MONEY STOLEN— THA T IS WHAT THEY
CALL PATRIOTISM" A cartoon by Honoré Daumier (1808-70), the French artist who ..."
7. The History of Modern Painting by RICHARD. MUTHER (1907)
"Our intention was merely to show that painting had to follow the path trodden by
Rowlandson and Cruikshank, Erhard and Richter, Daumier and Gavarni, ..."
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