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| Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
Au bal masqué, ca. 1868 Black chalk and gray wash on two prepared wood blocks: 6 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. Private collection |
Political Caricaturist of the Nineteenth Century
February 13 - May 18, 2003
The exhibition drawn from the Haggerty Museum's permanent collection also included a painting on panel, chalk drawing, and hand-painted lithographs from the Milwaukee Art Museum and a New York-based private collection. Daumier was best known during his lifetime for the lithographs he produced lampooning Parisian life, lawyers and prominent political figures.