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Honor 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 was born in Marseille to JeanBaptiste Louis Daumier and Ccile Catherine Philippe. His father JeanBaptiste was a glazier whose literary aspirations led him to move to Paris in 1814, seeking to be published as a poet. In 1816 the young Daumier and his mother followed JeanBaptiste to Paris. Daumier showed in his youth an irresistible inclination towards the artistic profession, which his father vainly tried to check by placing him first with a huissier, for whom he was employed as an errand boy, and later, with a bookseller. In 1822 he became protg to Alexandre Lenoir, a friend of Daumiers father who was an artist and archaeologist. The following year Daumier entered the Acadmie Suisse. He also worked for a lithographer and publisher named Belliard, and made his first attempts at lithography.
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