For much of his career, Honore Daumier was more famous as a draughtsman and caricaturist than as a painter.
He prolifically created satirical drawings of political figures for many of the up and coming periodicals in France.
And in fact, in 1831, one of his caricatures of King Louis Philip was deemed so insulting, it landed Daumier with a prison sentence.
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