Pictures and Places from Daumier’s Life

Daumier’s house at 9, Quai d’Anjou, Île St. Louis, in Paris, where he lived from 1846 to 1863

A plate is attached at the house at 9, Quai d’Anjou, Île St. Louis

Daumier’s house in Valmondois.

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Académie Suisse in Paris

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

Daumier statue in Valmondois

Place Monument Daumier in Valmondois. (old postcard)

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The Ste.-Pélagie Prison

Enterrement de Daumier. Painting by Manet. (click on the image for enlargement)

1908 Valmondois:
Centennial of Daumier’s Birth (1)

1908 Valmondois:
Centennial of Daumier’s Birth (2)

1908 Valmondois:
Centennial of Daumier’s Birth (3)

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1908 Valmondois:
Centennial of Daumier’s Birth (4)

A HONORÉ DAUMIER

An obituary by his colleague André Gill. This text was published right after Daumier’s death on February 23, 1879.

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Daumier’s house in Valmondois.

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Paul Louis GACHET (1873-1962) of 1906

Rue Daumier in Paris (ancient postcard)

Obituary for Honoré Daumier in the Charivari by Pierre Véron, editor of Le Charivari from 1866 on

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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
Atelier & Maison de DAUMIER à Valmondois
Original drawing by E.-R. Haumont

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

Kunst-Chronik 27. März 1879
Nekrolog / Obituary for Honoré Daumier
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Statue in front of Villa Daumier, chemin latéral du Carrouge, Valmondois.
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VALMONDOIS -ancient postcard. School children in front of the Daumier statue (click on image for enlargement)

Statue in Valmondois, ancient postcard of 1916.
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Inauguration of the statue in Valmondois – August 9, 1908.
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Invitation to take part in the funeral of Honoré Daumier for February 13, 1879. Signed by Madame Daumier and his friends.
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Stereo photo from 1906. A group of people in front of the Daumier statue in Valmondois.
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Daumier’s house in Valmondois. 1906. Etching by Paul VAN RYSSEL or Paul GACHET (11 x 15cm).
Dr. Paul Gachet (1828-1909), became famous as doctor treating Vincent Van Gogh, who in turn made a portrait of the doctor. Gachet was also a painter and engraver. He signed his works with “Paul van Ryssel” (referring to his birth place Ryssel)
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LE PHARE of Feb. 15, 1879 communicates the death of Honoré Daumier. “A stroke followed by paralysis removed him in three days from the affection of all those who had the good fortune to have been close to him.”
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