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| Honoré Daumier "Snow! Real snow! I haven't seen snow in Paris since 1822! This makes me feel thirty years younger!" 1853 lithograph, published in Le Charivari Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Honoré Daumier "O Moon! Inspire me tonight with just one little thought!" 1844 lithograph, published in Le Charivari Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Édouard Drumont on Daumier: "Caricature, for him, became a sort of philosophic operation which consisted in separating a man from that which society had made of him, in order to reveal what he was at bottom, what he could have been under different circumstances. He extracted, in a word, the latent self."
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| Honoré Daumier "Come in without fear, Monsieur Potard! You can see there is no danger, since I'm here!" 1856 hand-colored lithograph Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Honoré Daumier Nymphs on the shores of the Marne 1855 hand-colored-lithograph Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Baudelaire on Daumier: "By no one more than Daumier has the bourgeois been known and loved (after the fashion of artists) – the bourgeois, this last vestige of the Middle Ages, this Gothic ruin that dies so hard, this type at once so commonplace and so eccentric."
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| Honoré Daumier Danger of wearing petticoat-ballons in the season of gales 1857 lithograph, published in Le Charivari Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Honoré Daumier Muse of the Brasserie 1864 lithograph, published in Le Charivari Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Honoré Daumier "Monsieur, I assure you this cut is very flattering!" ca. 1845-50 lithograph, published in Le Charivari Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Baudelaire on Daumier: "His caricature has formidable breadth, but it is quite without bile or rancor. In all his work there is a foundation of decency and bonhomie. We should note that he has often refused to handle certain very fine and violent satirical themes, because, he said, they exceeded the limits of the comic and could wound the feelings of his fellow men."
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| Honoré Daumier "It feels like we're going to be derailed!" "You're afraid of a railroad crash? Not me! My life is insured for a hundred thousand francs!" 1857 hand-colored lithograph Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Honoré Daumier The gust of wind 1843 lithograph, published in Le Charivari Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Eduard Fuchs on Daumier: "Not only does caricature greatly accentuate the techniques of drawing, but it has always been the means of introducing new subject matter into art. It was through Monnier, Gavarni, and Daumier that the bourgeois society of this century was opened up to art."
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| Honoré Daumier "O, my adored Victor! Such a poetic idea occurs to me!" 1844 lithograph, published in Le Charivari Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Honoré Daumier Death of Sappho 1843 lithograph, published in Le Charivari Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Siegfried Kracauer on Daumier: "Everyone knew Daumier's mythological caricatures, which, in the words of Baudelaire, made Achilles, Odysseus, and the rest look like a lot of played-out tragic actors, inclined to take pinches of snuff at moments when no one was looking."
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| Honoré Daumier The new Cinderella (Austria running away, abandoning Italy) 1866 lithograph, published in Le Charivari Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Honoré Daumier Box at the Théâtre Ventadour during the performance of an Italian tragedy 1856 lithograph, published in Le Charivari Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Honoré Daumier Curtain call for the singer 1857 lithograph, published in Le Charivari Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
– quoted passage are from The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Harvard University Press, 1999)