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Daumier
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Daumier
Honor? . 1808--79, French painter and lithographer, noted particularly for his political and social caricatures


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That experience with human misery influenced his art, which had an air of mysticism and austerity and, like that of his contemporary Honore Daumier, often featured the oppressed and the downtrodden (e.
``It's very much the stuff,'' said New York gallery owner Margo Feiden, who compared the drawings to those of celebrated 19th-century French caricaturist Honore Daumier.
The forms of charivari that had served the Demoiselles in 1829 and 1830 became useful to critics of the July Monarchy such as Charles Phillipon and Honore Daumier, in their journals La Caricature and Le Charivari, as well as a form adopted by urban critics of deputies to the National Assembly in 1832.
 
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