Honoré Daumier            A famous French painter and sculptor, Honoré Daumier was born in 1808. Daumier was an incredible caricaturist and social satirist; he studied under Lenoir and learned lithography.⁸ He contributed political cartoons to newspapers ridiculing the aristocracy as well as the bourgeois society.⁹ His lithographs are now considered masterpieces, and his most famous works include Three Lawyers Conversing, 1862-65, Republic, 1848, Don Quixote, 1866-68, The Third-Class Carriage, 1850, The Uprising, 1860, and Le Ventre Legislative, 1834.¹⁰ Home