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Honoré Daumier

The Troubadour

1868–73
oil on fabric
83.6 × 56.8 cm (32.9 × 22.4 in)

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Daumier was called the “Michelangelo of caricature” and especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.

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