Word: daumier
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...latest wearer of the green uniform of the Academie des Beaux Arts, one of the five subdivisions of the ancient Institut de France, is J. L. Forain, famous cartoonist of Le Figaro. He was a pupil of Honore Daumier, greatest of all users of the satiric brush of the political cartoonist. Daumier was a great artist from any point of view. Forain has never equalled him, but his position is very important, not only in journalism, but in " straight" etching and painting as well...
...minor or insignificant. Would a green uniform help to forward the art of political and social commentary (as expressed in drawn, rather than spoken lines) in this country? We have innumerable competent political artists (Darling, Rollin Kirby, McCutcheon) a few with streaks of genius, none of the stature of Daumier or even of some of the lesser men abroad. If a green uniform would help, let some benefactor import...
Eighteenth century work is illustrated by Watteau and Fragonard. The work of the Barbizon school may be studied in scenes of peasant life by Charles Jacque and Millet, and landscapes by Daubigny, Corot, and Rousseau. Etchings of Paris by Lalanne and Lepere are shown, Lithographs by Gavarni, Chariet, Raffet, Daumier, and Manet; landscape etchings by Pissarro, and a very rare lithograph of four figures by Ingres...
...Century wood cuts made from illustrations in printed books; XVth Century Florentine engravings; The Judgement of Paris, one of the early and very rare prints by Marcantonio; a beautiful impression of Mantegna's Seated Virgin; two large engravings by the North Italian, Mocetto; and prints by Ingres, Fragonard, Manet, Daumier and Delacroix...
...French prints covering the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. There are examples of engraving by Duvet; etchings by Callot, Claude Lorrain, Gaspar Poussin; engraved portraits of the seventeenth century by Mellan, Nanteuil, Edelinck, Masson, Morin, etchings by Watteau, Millet, Lalanne, Corot, Lepere; and lithographs by Daumier, Delacroix, Isabey, and Gavarni...