To illustrate what he meant, in 1831 Daumier “put” the king Louis-Philippe on a pedestal only to mercilessly ridicule him, to much popular acclaim. The cartoon of the monarch, in the comic journal La ...

One of the delightful discoveries of recent years in the world of caricature has been the deadly penmanship of David Levine, 42, whose witty, polemical line drawings have appeared in Esquire, New ...

In “Technical Notes on Daumier,” included in the catalogue, Philadelphians are given the results of a study conducted by Art Expert David Rosen and Curator of Paintings Henri Marceau, by means ...

Honoré Daumier was a French painter and printmaker best known for his caricatures critiquing and satirizing society and politics in 19th-century France. His two most famous characters were the ...

Honoré Daumier, a French artist active in the mid-to-late 19th century, was a master of satirical drawings and prints. A selection of his works is now on view at the Central Branch of the Boston ...

From a series titled ‘Les Representans Representes’ (The representative represented) depicting the portraits of the ‘Assemblee Constituante’ (Constituent Assembly) and the ‘Assemblee Legislative’ ...

Roman Polanski’s latest movie, The Palace, is hard to take. That’s why it may be the essential satire of this period. In a scabrous, outré attack, Polanski caricatures the ruling class so ...

Daumier’s cartoons were published in the newspaper La Caricature and Le Charivari. Contemporaries such as Eugène Delacroix and Charles Baudelaire admired his draftsmanship.