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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. . . . , Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online :: View more Prints and Drawings
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