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Don Quijote and Sancho Panza
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| Artist / Maker | Honoré Daumier |
|---|---|
| Date | 1868 |
| Culture / Origin | France |
| Medium | canvas, oil paint |
| Genre | equestrian portrait, history painting |
| Type | Painting |
| Collection | Bavarian State Painting Collections |
| Location | Neue Pinakothek |
About the Artist
Honoré Daumier was eight years old when his father, a glazier and frame maker who had decided to pursue his poetic talents in Paris, sent for the wife and three sons he lad left behind in Marseilles. In Paris Daumier studied drawing with Alexandre Lenoir (1761-1839) and at the Académie Suisse. Around 1825 he began a five-year apprenticeship with the publisher and lithographer Zépherin Belliard (1798-?). The July revolution of 1830, which established Louis-Philippe as the constitutional monarch in France,… Full biography →
Provenance & Source
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