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The Drunkard by Honoré-Victorin Daumier — VisualArtsDB

The Drunkard

The Drunkard

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

1834

Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 27.5 × 22.2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 30 × 23 cm (11 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Genre: lithograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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“- It's useless to show you my apartment. We are not renting out to mothers with children,” plate 1 from Les Portiers De Paris

“- It's useless to show you my apartment. We are not renting out to mothers with children,” plate 1 from Les Portiers De Paris

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1856

Theater Plays in Beijing. The love for the theater in Beijing is reaching almost absurd dimensions, and strangely enough in all the plays it is about whether Mr. Alfred will marry Miss Josephine. There is no better proof for the stupidity of the Chinese people caused by opium, because they don't even realise that they see the same play every night and they stand in line in front of different theaters every day, worried that Miss Josephine marries Mr. Oscar without them attending the touching wedding ceremony, plate 27 from Voyage En Chine

Theater Plays in Beijing. The love for the theater in Beijing is reaching almost absurd dimensions, and strangely enough in all the plays it is about whether Mr. Alfred will marry Miss Josephine. There is no better proof for the stupidity of the Chinese people caused by opium, because they don't even realise that they see the same play every night and they stand in line in front of different theaters every day, worried that Miss Josephine marries Mr. Oscar without them attending the touching wedding ceremony, plate 27 from Voyage En Chine

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

“- My graft of a cherry slip on an apricot tree really didn't take.... strange, ... after all, I followed exactly the instructions in the 'Manual of Useful Knowledge,'” plate 7 from Pastorales

“- My graft of a cherry slip on an apricot tree really didn't take.... strange, ... after all, I followed exactly the instructions in the 'Manual of Useful Knowledge,'” plate 7 from Pastorales

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1845

“- Oh, my friend... I am afraid of these people there. - And rightly so... they are quite vicious, they beat their women and make them have black children!,” plate 101 from Actualités

“- Oh, my friend... I am afraid of these people there. - And rightly so... they are quite vicious, they beat their women and make them have black children!,” plate 101 from Actualités

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1859

"- How are you feeling today, Mr. Chapolard? - Madame Pochet, a concierge who knows how to behave, should address her landlord only in the third person. - How can I talk to you in the third person, since you are the first person I am seeing this morning," plate 11 from Croquis Parisiens

"- How are you feeling today, Mr. Chapolard? - Madame Pochet, a concierge who knows how to behave, should address her landlord only in the third person. - How can I talk to you in the third person, since you are the first person I am seeing this morning," plate 11 from Croquis Parisiens

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1852

Paid By the Minute. “- Driver, you are hardly moving! - Driver, you are not moving at all!,” plate 447 from Actualités

Paid By the Minute. “- Driver, you are hardly moving! - Driver, you are not moving at all!,” plate 447 from Actualités

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1857

“- Difficult to imagine that in my days I also was an acclaimed Spanish dancer... nowadays only my castanets are Spanish... what a drag...,” plate 11 from Croquis Dramatiques

“- Difficult to imagine that in my days I also was an acclaimed Spanish dancer... nowadays only my castanets are Spanish... what a drag...,” plate 11 from Croquis Dramatiques

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1857

“What idiots! You paint a religious picture for them and they laugh.... they don't even have a devotion to art!...,” plate 4 from Croquis Pris Au Salon par Daumier

“What idiots! You paint a religious picture for them and they laugh.... they don't even have a devotion to art!...,” plate 4 from Croquis Pris Au Salon par Daumier

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1865

“- It seems that the sea serpent has reappeared in the Indian Ocean!... - Oh, my God... is it possible!... - Of course it's possible if I tell you that it has been printed like that in the Constitutionnel!...,” plate 20 from Les Bons Bourgeois

“- It seems that the sea serpent has reappeared in the Indian Ocean!... - Oh, my God... is it possible!... - Of course it's possible if I tell you that it has been printed like that in the Constitutionnel!...,” plate 20 from Les Bons Bourgeois

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1846

Two Lawyers

Two Lawyers

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1855

In the bell section, plate 27 from L'exposition Universelle

In the bell section, plate 27 from L'exposition Universelle

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1855

“- Yes alright, but the poor boy's belly is hurting,” plate 13 from Les Papas

“- Yes alright, but the poor boy's belly is hurting,” plate 13 from Les Papas

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1847