| Honoré Daumier is best known today for his extraordinary career as a caricaturist
for nineteenth-century French periodicals. Starting in the 1820s, his perceptive
lithographs captured by turn the brutality of a repressive regime, the venality
of the professional classes, and the tastes and foibles of the ascendant middle
class. Daumier created more than four thousand prints during a period that spanned
almost sixty years, insightfully recording the grist of everyday life in the
burgeoning metropolis of Paris. The Corcoran’s collection of more than
fifteen hundred of the published lithographs is one of the most extensive holdings
of his work in the United States. . . .
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Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from
the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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