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Honoré Daumier Artworks collected in Metmuseum

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Honoré Daumier Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Honoré-Victorin Daumier (French: [ɔnɔʁe domje]; February 26, 1808 – February 10, 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second Napoleonic Empire in 1870. He earned a living throughout most of his life producing caricatures and cartoons of political figures and satirizing the behavior of his countrymen in newspapers and periodicals, for which he became well known in his lifetime and is still known today. He was a republican democrat who attacked the bourgeoisie, the church, lawyers and the judiciary, politicians, and the monarchy. He was jailed for several months in 1832 after the publication of Gargantua, a particularly offensive and discourteous depiction of King Louis-Philippe. Daumier was also a serious painter, loosely associated with realism. Although he occasionally exhibited his paintings at the Parisian Salons, his work was largely overlooked and ignored by the French public and most of the critics of the day. Yet the poet and art critic, Charles Baudelaire and Daumier's fellow painters noticed and greatly admired his paintings, which were to have an influence on a younger generation of impressionist and postimpressionist painters. Later generations have come to recognize Daumier as one of the great French artists of the 19th century. Daumier was a tireless and prolific artist and produced more than 100 sculptures, 500 paintings, 1000 drawings, 1000 wood engravings, and 4000 lithographs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Daumier

Palette

French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois / The Met

   title: Palette
   department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
   accessionYear: 1932

Man Dreaming

French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois / The Met

   title: Man Dreaming
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1964

A Theater Audience

French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois / The Met

   title: A Theater Audience
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1972

Saint Sebastian

French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois / The Met

   title: Saint Sebastian
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1969

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois / The Met

   title: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1927

Street Show (Paillasse) (recto); a clown playing a drum (verso)

French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois / The Met

   title: Street Show (Paillasse) (recto); a clown playing a drum (verso)
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1927

Sheet of Studies with a Dancer

French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois / The Met

   title: Sheet of Studies with a Dancer
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1978

Three Male Heads

Jost Amman Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Jost Amman Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Jost Amman (June 13, 1539 – March 17, 1591) was a Swiss-German artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jost_Amman Marcus Curtius    title: Marcus Curtius    department: Drawings and Prints    accessionYear: 2002 Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570    title: Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570    department: Drawings and Prints    accessionYear: 1953 Triumph of Christian Faith    ti
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Winslow Homer Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Winslow Homer Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively
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Okumura Masanobu Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Okumura Masanobu Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Okumura Masanobu (Japanese: 奥村 政信; 1686 – 13 March 1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes and in his early years wrote some fiction. At first his work adhered to the Torii school, but later drifted beyond that. He is a figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e doing early works on actors and bijin-ga ("pictures of beautiful women"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okumura_Masanobu Yaoya O Shichi Standing, Holding a Love Letter and a Battledo
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