In Promenades of an Impressionist, James Huneker quotes Honoré de Balzac as saying,
“There is something of the Michelangelo in this man.” - page 204
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Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, a painting by Honoré Daumier created circa 1868. PD Source: Wikimedia Commons
In Baudelaire and Caricature Michele Hannoosh points to a quote by Charles Baudelaire from an article titled “Some French Caricaturists” that ran in L'Artiste in 1858. Of Daumier he writes:
“...one of the most important men, I will not say only of caricature, but also of modern art.” - page 88
Atherton Curtis wrote in Some Masters Of Lithography:
"In studying Daumier's work it is well to bear in mind that the vast majority of his three thousand seven hundred lithographs were done for the purpose of earning a living, and that he not only disliked lithography, but that caricature itself was distasteful to him. His one ambition in life was to be a painter, but poverty compelled him to turn his genius to other things." - page 75
"Daumier is beyond all doubt the greatest caricaturist that lithography has produced; perhaps it is not too much to say the greatest that any art has produced." - page 80
"Daumier reviewed in his lithographs almost all the passing events and fashions of his day, such as the comet which was to destroy the world in 1857; the various laws, with their effects on different people; crinolines, a never failing source of amusement to the caricaturists of the period; the influenza, magnetism, spiritualism, with all its absurdities of table-tipping; besides which he ridiculed all grades of society and all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, the middle classes, butchers, cab drivers, porters, artists, lawyers, judges, criminals, proprietors of houses and their tenants, amateur actors; in short no one escaped his raillery." - page 84
In Honoré Daumier: Appreciations of His Life and Works Duncan Phillips writes:
"Of the Old Masters only Michael Angelo surpassed him in giving to abstract thought plastic expression." - page 13
Honoré Daumier on the Internet
Wikipedia | French Wikipedia | Wikimedia Commons | WikiPaintings | British Museum | National Gallery of Art (US) (alt) | National Gallery of Canada
Special Collections
Bibliothèque nationale de France: Daumier exhibition
Brandeis Libraries: Honore Daumier Lithographs
Brandeis Institutional Repository - Honoré Daumier Digitized Lithographs (Search)
Collections Database: Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium: Daumier
Graphic Arts Collection, Princeton University Library: Daumier
Hammer Daumier Collection: Honoré Daumier
Harvard Art Museums: Artist, Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Hisoire Ancienne Daumier and the ancient Greeks
Musee d'Orsay - Works by Honoré Daumier
National Library of France Homère: Honoré Daumier
The J. Getty Museum: Comic Art: The Paris Salon in Caricature
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thirty-six of the original clay sculptures
Valmondois.fr La Villa Daumier
Articles and Blogs
BBC - Your Pantings - Honoré Daumier Slideshow
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University: When Artists Attack the King: Honoré Daumier and La Caricature, 1830–1835
Melton Prior Institute Against Daumier. A Revision of Early French Caricature and Social Graphics. by Alexander Roob
Books and Magazines
A Collection of His Social and Political Caricatures Together with an Introductory Essay on His Art By Elisabeth Luther Cary published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1907
Baudelaire and Caricature: From the Comic to an Art of Modernity by Michele Hannoosh published by Penn State Press in 1992
Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Volumes 1-13 by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston published 1903
Daumier Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, published in 1992
Exposition des peintures et dessins de H. Daumier: Galeries Durand-Ruel By Durand-Ruel et fils (Firm), Champfleur published in Paris by Gauthier-Villars, Imprimeur-Libraire in 1878
Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850 edited by Christopher John Murray: Daumier, Honoré (Victorin) 1808-1879
Histoire e la Caricature Moderne (alt) by Champfleury published in Paris by E. Dentu in 1885
Honoré Daumier als Lithograph By Kurt Bertels published by R. Piper & Company in 1908
Honoré Daumier: Appreciations of His Life and Works by Duncan Phillips published in New Your by E.P. Dutton & Company in 1922
Honoré Daumier by Erich Klossowski and Honoré Daumie published in "München by R. Piper & Co. in 1908
Honoré Daumier By Honoré Daumier published by Librarie Félix Juven in 1908
In The History Of The Nineteenth Century In Caricature by Arthur Bartlett Maurice And Frederic Taber Cooper published in London by Grant Richards In 1904 Gutenberg, Google Books
Les cent et un Robert-Macaire By Honoré Daumier and Charles Philipon published by Aubert & Cie, 1840
Picture and text: Honoré Daumier By Henry James published by Harper and brothers, 1893
Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1922
Some masters of lithography by Atherton Curtis published in New York by D. Appleton and Company in 1897
Steeplejack by James Gibbons Huneker published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1921
The Century Magazine, Volume 39: January 1890, Daumier Caricaturist by Henry James
The Story of French Painting By Charles Henry Caffin published by The Century Company, 1915
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