Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection
About the Collection
With a career that spanned most of the nineteenth century, Honoré Daumier (1808–79) was an extremely prolific artist, producing thousands of lithographs and wood engravings, hundreds of drawings and paintings, and numerous sculptures. Blending satirical humor with serious political, social, and cultural themes, his art addressed and criticized the predicament of life in contemporary France with a universality that crosses cultural and temporal boundaries.
One of the most comprehensive collections outside France, the Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection comprises more than seventy-five hundred objects, including prints and drawings by other French caricaturists who were Daumier’s contemporaries. A selection of paintings, drawings, and lithographs from this collection accompanies a group of bronze portrait busts of several famous political figures of Daumier’s day. Depicted with scathing sarcasm and mordant wit, the caricatures attest to the artist’s desire to expose the often hypocritical nature of his subjects.
Selections from the Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection are on rotating display in the museum’s third floor permanent collection galleries.
Below are selected works from the collection. These artworks may not be currently on view. View current exhibitions and installations to see what’s on view now.
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Honoré Daumier, Don Quixote et Sancho Panza [Don Quixote and Sancho Panza], 1866-1868Oil on canvas. 16 1/4 x 13 in. (41.3 x 33 cm). The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. -
Honoré Daumier, Les Baigneurs [The Bathers], September 22, 1840Lithograph. Sheet: 10 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. (26 x 34.3 cm). The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. Gift of Dr. Armand Hammer. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. -
Honoré Daumier, Le passé - Le present - L’avenir [Past - Present - The Future], January 9, 1834Lithograph. Image: 13 1/4 x 10 3/16 in. (33.7 x 25.9 cm). The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. -
Honoré Daumier, Le Ventre Législatif - Aspect des bancs ministériels de la chambre improstituée de 1834 [The Legislative Belly - View of the ministerial benches in the improstituted house of 1834], 1834Lithograph. Image: 11 1/8 x 17 1/8 in. (28.3 x 43.5 cm); Sheet: 13 11/16 x 20 in. (34.7 x 50.8 cm). The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. Gift of Dr. Armand Hammer. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. -
Honoré Daumier, Nadar élevant la Photographie á la hauteur de l’Art [NADAR elevating photography to the level of art], May 25, 1862Lithograph. Image: 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. (27 x 21.9 cm). The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. Gift of Dr. Armand Hammer. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. -
Honoré Daumier, Ne Vous Y Frottez Pas! [Don’t Meddle with the Press!], 1834Lithograph. Plate: 13 3/4 x 17 5/8 in. (34.9 x 44.8 cm). The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. -
Honoré Daumier, Ratapoil, model 1851, cast c. 1925Bronze. 17 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (43.8 x 16.5 x 17.1 cm). The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. Gift of Dr. Armand Hammer. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. -
Honoré Daumier, Rue Transnonain, Le 15 Avril 1834 [The Massacre at the Rue Transnonain, April 15. 1834], 1834Lithograph. Image: 11 1/4 x 17 1/4 in. (28.6 x 43.8 cm); Sheet: 14 1/8 x 21 3/8 in. (35.8 x 54.3 cm). The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. -
Honoré Daumier, Un Avocat Plaidant [The Pleading Lawyer], c. 1845Watercolor, ink, gouache, and charcoal. 6 3/8 x 8 5/8 in. (16.2 x 21.9 cm). The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. -
Nadar, Portrait of Honoré Daumier, c. 1870Albumen print. Image: 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (21 x 14.6 cm); Sheet: 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (26.7 x 21 cm). The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. Gift of Dr. Armand Hammer. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.