Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The Side Show (La Parade), 1865/67

Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, with charcoal, on ivory laid paper (discolored to cream)

51.7 × 36.4 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-884747

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

They succeeded in acclimatizing the Indian potato to the French climate, but it is still a problem to acclimatize the French to the Indian potato!, plate 1 from La Société D'acclimatation, 1858

Lithograph in black on buff wove paper, with letterpress verso

19.4 × 22.9 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-1109042

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

View of the Grand Hall, plate 1 from Souvenirdu Grand Festival des Orphéonistes, 1859

Lithograph on buff wove paper, with letter press, verso

21.7 × 27.3 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-1120393

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Bearded Man, n.d.

Pen and brown iron gall ink on cream wove paper

13 × 12.1 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-1113717

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A Candidate. “Who do you want?... An upright, conscientious, sober man, an industrialist, a man who doesn't need the government to enrich himself, a man familiar with the law, who knows it well, through practice, very long practice... a long practice of law... you can't choose any better than... my…, 1837

Hand-colored lithograph in black, heightened with gum arabic on ivory wove paper

36 × 27 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-1114909

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Fatherly Discipline, 1851/52

Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, with charcoal, on cream laid paper

25.2 × 20 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-883496

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Diogenes and Alcibiades at the Odeon. “- Ah... it's modern....what a man!,” plate 121 from Actualités, published January 23, 1846

Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso

24.4 × 22.8 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-1114937

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A Man Saved Against his Will, plate seven from Les Canotiers Parisiens, 1843

Lithograph in black, with additions in pen and brown ink (discolored to grayish brown) and caption in pen and brown ink, on ivory wove paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper

25.2 × 19 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-1114916

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

An Exaggerated Rejuvenation. “Just two or three sessions with me, Monsieur, and anyone who still claims to find a grey hair on you, is a malicious person.” As a matter of fact, since the end of the second session, Monsieur's head looks as shiny as that of a newborn baby, plate 52 from Les Beaux Jou…, published March 27, 1845

Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper (sheet folded to form four pages), with text added in another hand and letterpress verso (and recto when unfolded)

20.5 × 21.1 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-1108942

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Four Lawyers, 1867/1870

Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, on grayish-cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper

27.1 × 22.5 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-885273

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Inspite of all their assertions that their guns are only loaded with small shots, it is nonetheless annoying to be aimed at the head like this for three consecutive hours... I tremble at the thought that they might dream of an encounter with a rabbit...,” plate 13 from Émotions De Chasse, 1855

Lithograph in black on white wove paper, with letterpress verso

19 × 22.6 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-1127467

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A Confession Of Faith. “Yes Sir, I bared my political life in pure sincerity before my country. I was convinced that my true love for our institutions would make me worthy of representing my fellow citizens. I was wrong, Monsieur, it seems the nation wasn't ready for this yet,” plate 23 from Les Ba…, 1842

Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on white wove paper, with letterpress verso

20.2 × 23.1 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-1108860