Pictures and Places from Daumier’s Life

Daumier statue in Marseille

Alexandre Lenoir, Daumier’s teacher

Exposition de Daumier 1878
Caricature by Cham. Caption: “La caricature allant rendre hommage à son roi”

Daumier’s grave. Drawing by Cherpin.
(From: J. Cherpin, Daumier et la Sculpture, Paris 1979)

Daumier’s grave at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, restored by the Daumier Register with the support of Daumier collectors at the occasion of Daumier’s 200th birthday in 2008.
(photograph © by Daniel Bolsinger)

House in Marseille where Daumier was born

Daumier’s house in Paris. Etching by Aimé Victor Barraud, Swiss (1902-1954)

Daumier’s house in Valmondois where he died. (Photograph from 1908)

Mme Daumier in front of the house in Valmondois

Obituary for Mme. Daumier
published in Le Radical on Jan.17, 1895

Rue Daumier in Paris (ancient postcard)

Rue Daumier in Paris (ancient postcard)

VALMONDOIS -ancient postcard
Gathering for the centennary of Daumier on August 9, 1908. Miss Berthe Bovy, actress from the Comédie Française, reciting poems of Emile Henriot

VALMONDOIS – ancient postcard
Centennary of Daumier, August 9, 1908. The train station flagged for the reception of the Minister of Art