26,8" HONORE DAUMIER "The chess players" painting canvas not oil printed on canvas
HONORE DAUMIER (1808 –1879)
Ready to be hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden frame.
Medium: printed on canvas panel
Diagonal: 26,8" or 68 cm.
Size: 21,7" x 15,7" (in) or 55 x 40 cm.
Date: c. 1863. w / C. of Attribution.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas.
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo.
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French
printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer
commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. Daumier
produced more than 500 paintings, 4000 lithographs, 1000 wood engravings, 1000
drawings and 100 sculptures. A prolific draughtsman, he was perhaps best known
for his caricatures of political figures and satires on the behavior of his
countrymen, although posthumously the value of his painting has also been
recognized. Having mastered the techniques of lithography, Daumier began his
artistic career by producing plates for music publishers, and illustrations for
advertisements. This was followed by anonymous work for publishers, in which he
emulated the style of Charlet and displayed considerable enthusiasm for the
Napoleonic legend. After the revolution of 1830 he created art which expressed
his political beliefs. Daumier was almost blind by 1873. Daumier's 200th
birthday was celebrated in 2008 with a number of exhibitions in Asia, America,
Australia and Europe.
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